I see a lot of Python github projects are often just a single file and a readme. I would love to be able to install/remove these via pip, without having to create the packaging myself. Ideally I want to use it like this:

pippify https://github.com/amoffat/pbs 

Pippify would grab the code, and branch a few different directions depending on the code layout. I'm thinking for the simplest case (a 1-file module), it would create all the distutils/setuptools prerequisites and build/install via pip.

Any thoughts? Totally stupid idea? Does it ease a pain point for you? I'm not a python packaging guru, but does the premise sound appealing?

I saw a module called Clint the other day and I would really like to play with it.

I've got it downloaded, unpacked, and now I'm trying to install it. running setup.py returns an error message: C:\Python32\lib\distutils\dist.py:259: UserWarning: Unknown distribution option: 'install_requires' warnings.warn(msg)
usage: setup.py [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...] or: setup.py --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...] or: setup.py --help-commands or: setup.py cmd --help

error: no commands supplied 

I'm running Windows XP and Python 3.2. Do I need to install pip? How can I do that in Windows?

Thanks

Hey guys, so here's the deal: I'm writing a PDF reader that reads, displays and saves LaTeX annotations and I now want to distribute it. It's called Notorius, and here is the code. It is definitely not yet ready for production use, but in order to attract users and testers, I feel I need to provide a simple way of installing it.

For Ubuntu, I wrote two simple scripts, to install and uninstall. The install script fetches the dependencies via apt-get and pip, places the program in ~/.notorius and adds some symlinks. The uninstall script removes whatever dependencies were installed, removes ~/.notorius and the symlinks. This is pretty peculiar, and instead, I'd like to provide a deb and an rpm. That is my first problem.

My second problem is installing it in Windows. Right now, to run it in Windows, I need to manually install MikTeX, Python27, PyQt4 and python-poppler-qt4, the library I use to render PDFs. Finally, to make it run, I have to issue

C:\Python27\pythonw.exe C:\Path\To\main.py 

from the terminal, since simply double-clicking doesn't work, for some reason. Ideally, I'd like to have one big exe that installs all the dependencies (if they are not yet present) and then simply creates a Start Menu shortcut to the program. I have no idea how feasible it is. I've tried using py2exe and cx_freeze, but I couldn't get it to work just right because of my python-poppler-qt4 dependency.

Finally, I have no idea how apps are bundled in Macs, so I'm just lost in this land.

Observations:

• The program is run by executing main.py. Everything needed for it to run is in the src folder.

• I know the code is a mess, I have plans to clean it up later.

• I have access to a native Linux, a virtual Windows and a virtual Mac.

• I know I should probably create some sort of Python package with setuptools or distribute, but my attempts to build them failed miserably.