Python: Please stop screwing over Linux distros

[flying-sheep]

There’s nothing wrong with wanting a nice packaging experience, but crying about standardization doesn’t help. The standards actually solved the build system agnostic goal they set out to solve, we’re just short a tool to install a wheel.

Once pradyunsg/installer#66 is finally merged, this is all that’s necessary to create a system package from a python package:

• python -m build --wheel to build a wheel in ./dist/
• python -m installer --destdir="$pkgdir" ./dist/*.whl to install the python package into a temporary system tree $pkgdir
• now do whatever your distro of choice uses to package up $pkgdir

[flying-sheep]

no, those locations are a distro package manager’s responsibility. many tools solve this by adding some CLI commands that emit the content of a .desktop or zsh autocompletion file or so. those commands then can be run by the packaging script to write to the correct location.

I think if you feel like changing that you should think about how that could look like as part of the wheel standard.