Re: PEP-582 concerns

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chad Smith <[email protected]>
> Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 1:33 PM
> To: Alex Walters <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Distutils] Re: PEP-582 concerns
> 
> I was not aware that discuss.python.org <http://discuss.python.org>  was
> being used now. I started a thread there on PEP-582:
> https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-directory/963.
> Would you mind reposting your response there?
> 

Yes, I actually would greatly mind posting on discuss.python.org, that site is itself contentious.  Discussion mediums have been discussed to death, I won't rehash it here (nor do I want to open that issue back up), but I posted on the list for a reason.

> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:30 AM Alex Walters <[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
> 
> 
> 	I kind of feel that "third party tool can/will use this feature" is
> 	orthogonal to "how the interpreter behaves out of the box" - unless I
> 	misunderstand and you are suggesting python grow support for
> launching
> 	entrypoints from the python executable.
> 
> 	> -----Original Message-----
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> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >
> 	> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 12:42 PM
> 	> To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> 	> Subject: [Distutils] Re: PEP-582 concerns
> 	>
> 	> Running entrypoints/executables in the bin directory has been
> solved by
> 	the
> 	> node community with npx
> (https://www.npmjs.com/package/npx):
> 	>
> 	> > Executes <command> either from a local node_modules/.bin, or
> from a
> 	> central cache, installing any packages needed in order for
> <command> to
> 	> run.
> 	>
> 	> I built similuar support into pipx as well, so `pipx run ENTRYPOINT`
> will
> 	search
> 	> the appropriate `__pypackages__` path for the bin dir and the
> entrypoint.
> 	> This is not the only way to solve it, but it seems to be working for
> the
> 	node.
> 	>
> 	> Indeed, massively popular projects like `create-react-app`
> 	> (https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app#quick-overview)
> include
> 	> npx as their sole installation instructions.
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