pip-upgrade VS ImaginaryInfinity-Calculator

Hey guys, I found a neat little project a few months ago and it's been super helpful to me, so I figured that I'd share it here. It's called pip-upgrade-tool and as the title says, it allows for an "upgrade all" mechanic in pip, since it currently doesn't have an official way of doing this. There is the way to upgrade everything by piping pip freeze to grep and cut and xargs, but that doesn't take into account the dependencies that each package has. This project, on the other hand, does take into account dependencies, just like a normal package manager. After installation with pip3 install pip-upgrade-tool, you can just run pip-upgrade in a terminal to upgrade everything. This package can run in and out of virtual environments, and has the ability to exclude packages as well. I actually contributed to it when I first found out about it, and added the ability to use a configuration file for permanent configurations (e.g. permanent excluded packages). Hope you guys find this as useful as I do!

I really like to use the pip-upgrade pip package to upgrade all of my packages, it doesn't break dependencies like normal pip would do with something like pip3 list --outdated --format=freeze | grep -v '^\-e' | cut -d = -f 1 | xargs -n1 pip3 install -U. Here's the link: https://github.com/realiti4/pip-upgrade

https://github.com/realiti4/pip-upgrade - Updates all packages in pip, and takes into account dependencies, something that pip cannot currently do

On the other hand, if you're not trying to make colored logging and you just want to make a colored terminal-based application like this, then that's fine since you won't be doing anything with the stdout and stderr. If its logging, try to stay aqay from color.

As an example of other routes, I have this application. Instead of distributing through PyPI, I distribute it on a large variety of different platforms. I do include manual installers, but it's also distributed in the AUR, in a PPA, in the snap store, as an AppImage, through an exe installer (for windows), and as an rpm. It can also be run without installation to be even more accessible.

ImaginaryInfinity Calculator - I've been taking a break from developing this lately, but think of it as a super over the top calculator. It has a built-in package manager for downloading user-created plugins and themes, because the whole point of it is to be expandable. Can be installed on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and also ran without installation. Kind of overkill but really fun to work on.

If you need to install multiple files to different locations and also install Python, you could make an installer with a tool like Inno Setup. Though this does take some learning to get the syntax of both Inno Setup Script as well as Pascalscript (used in the dynamic parts of the installer), it is a valid option. Here's another example of me using Inno Setup in my project.

I mean, not the Python interpreter itself, but I use the calculator that I'm developing with my friend since it has things like plugin/theming support, and you can execute any arbitrary Python code in it as well.

If you're distributing to Windows users who could run a Powershell script, you could make the powershell script download the Python installer and launch it for them. Here's an example script that I use in one of my projects.

https://gitlab.com/TurboWafflz/ImaginaryInfinity-Calculator/-/tree/development - You could technically count this as mine since I develop it with my friend, but I'm putting it here anyways since I'm not the repo owner