Packaging a self contained CLI application for any environment?

• ptyme-track

  1 0 8.2 Python

  The obnoxiously hard to spell time tracking based on file modifications and signed reporting. The P is silent like in Pterodactyl

I wrote an automated time tracking library - https://github.com/JamesHutchison/ptyme-track - and I want to with a few steps as possible get this installed and running on a developer container. It watches for file changes, so there's an overhead to running it in Docker using a bind mount. Ideally, its just installed and ran on whatever it is "local" from the perspective of the application. I've encountered this problem before, where we wanted to install a CLI application while being python agnostic, and went with PyInstaller. However, PyInstaller wasn't an ideal experience. For example, we needed to do a build on a mac container to support macs, and even then you had to worry about intel vs apple silicon architecture or even the file hosting service flagging the embedded python as a virus.

• pants-plugins

  1 15 5.7 Python

  A small selection of custom PantsBuild plugins

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• pipx

  38 8,913 9.3 Python

  Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments

  

I would recommend going with PipX. You toss in a setup.py file, put your project on github, and then anyone on any OS can pipx install your project. It's a glorious thing. The only thing they need is 1) some supported version of Python installed, 2) pipx installed. They can even get updates by calling pipx upgrade.

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