devpi VS flake8-alphabetize

There are cases where you want the flexibility of installing a python package via pip without having it available to the open public. This article will focus on using devpi to provide a self-hosted pip compatible python package server. Ubuntu will be used for the OS as it's a fairly common Linux distribution and easily available on Windows Linux Subsystem.

When not providing all dependencies yourself, you might suffer from people deleting the packages you depend on (IMHO a very rare scenario). If it is really that critical (hint: usually it isn't), create a local mirror of Pypi (full or only the packages you need). Devpi, Artifactory, etc. can do that or you just dump the necessary files into Cloud storage, so you have a backup.

devpi acts as a caching proxy for PyPI and takes a bit less setup than this. Plus, you can use it for storing your own packages in a separate index.

https://github.com/devpi/devpi

There are several open-source solutions for provisioning your own, personal PyPI server — for example, this can be done using pypiserver or devpi. However, configuring these services takes time and effort, and it costs money to deploy them. Instead, we’ll use Packagr, a cloud-hosted python package server that allows you to provision your own private Python package repository. It also supports NPM packages and even Docker registries and is very easy to set up. You can get started by creating a free trial account on Packagr — when you’ve created your account, you’ll see this:

devpi-server will probably for the bill

> One should probably run their own package server like https://github.com/pypiserver/pypiserver

Never used pypiserver but I’ve had a good experience with https://github.com/devpi/devpi

You're right that energy ultimately dissipates as heat, but the important thing is what the energy achieves in between hitting the earth as sunlight and then heading off into space as infrared. If you put a solar panel in place to turn the light into electricity and then use that electricity to write a Python plugin for Flake8 https://github.com/tlocke/flake8-alphabetize then maybe you're contributed something to the economy :-)

I think you mean Flake8 rather than Sense8? Anyway, gives me a chance to plug Flake8 Alphabetize, a Flake8 plugin for import ordering https://github.com/tlocke/flake8-alphabetize