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Tset-Noitamotua opened this issue Feb 2, 2017 · 6 comments
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Chocolatey distribution #482

Tset-Noitamotua opened this issue Feb 2, 2017 · 6 comments
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@Tset-Noitamotua
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Hey, great project!

You may consider distribution through chocolatey.

Cheers
Tset
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stonebig commented Feb 2, 2017

Nuggets , chocolatey are words I heard, but I don't know the benefits, an even less the cost (in man hours).

Can you elaborate on these two topics, as you may have some experience ?

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There are some possible benefits

  • it's like brew on the Mac and apt-get on linux
    • package managers make installing and updating stuff more convinient
  • one could get winpython with just one command like choco install winpython
    • instead of downloading it manually and copy to usb / harddrive
  • it allows user to easily integrate winpython in their automatic provisioning scrips
    • e.g. have them on Github as a Gist
  • chocolatey and nugget are very popular thus you may reach more potential users
  • for more check ' why chocolatey?

required effort

  • I have never created or maintained a choco package myself but I assume the required effort is not very big especially in case of a portalbe application
  • may be @ferventcoder who is an experienced package creater and maintainer can provide some insights about this topic?

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ferventcoder commented Feb 3, 2017 •
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To give you an idea (this is just the 3.6.0.1 QT builds):

  • tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1:
$ErrorActionPreference = 'Stop';
$packageName  = 'winpython'
$toolsDir     = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"

$packageArgs = @{
  packageName   = $packageName
  softwareName  = 'WinPython*'
  fileType      = 'exe'
  silentArgs    = "/S"
  validExitCodes= @(0)
  url           = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_3.6/3.6.0.1/WinPython-32bit-3.6.0.1Qt5.exe/download"
  checksum      = 'C5ACDFBFB57EDBC395CCE053BAD807DB61335FB1CD7ABF5F209ED474B5374C2F'
  checksumType  = 'sha256'
  url64bit      = "https://sourceforge.net/projects/winpython/files/WinPython_3.6/3.6.0.1/WinPython-64bit-3.6.0.1Qt5.exe/download"
  checksum64    = 'A9C6ED5983711D21B96FAF1D4AB4178ECAA0D4A4612FF0415C11F46B69495B48'
  checksumType64= 'sha256'
}

Install-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs

winpython.nuspec:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2015/06/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <!-- == PACKAGE SPECIFIC SECTION == -->
    <!-- This section is about this package, although id and version have ties back to the software -->
    <id>winpython</id>
    <version>3.6.0.1</version>
    <owners>WinPython</owners>
    <!-- ============================== -->

    <!-- == SOFTWARE SPECIFIC SECTION == -->
    <!-- This section is about the software itself -->
    <title>WinPython (Install)</title>
    <authors>Pierre Raybaut,  Winpython development team</authors>
    <projectUrl>http://winpython.github.io/</projectUrl>
    <iconUrl>https://raw.githubusercontent.com/winpython/winpython/master/winpython/images/winpython.svg</iconUrl>
    <copyright>2012-2013 Pierre Raybaut, 2014-2017 The Winpython development team</copyright>
    <licenseUrl>https://github.com/winpython/winpython/blob/master/LICENSE</licenseUrl>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>true</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <projectSourceUrl>https://github.com/winpython/winpython</projectSourceUrl>
    <bugTrackerUrl>https://github.com/winpython/winpython/issues</bugTrackerUrl>
    <tags>python</tags>
    <summary>WinPython is a portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows.</summary>
    <description>WinPython is a portable distribution of the Python programming language for Windows (http://winpython.github.io).

This is the winpython Python package, not the distribution itself. It includes two main features:

#### WinPython Package Manager (WPPM)
* let you install/uninstall to your WinPython distribution any standard Python package built with distutils (e.g. dummypackage-2.1.win-amd64-py3.4.‌exe) or with wheels (e.g. dummypackage-2.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl)

#### WinPython build toolchain
* make.py is the script used to build a WinPython distribution from (almost) scratch. </description>
    <releaseNotes>https://github.com/winpython/winpython/blob/master/changelogs/WinPythonQt5-3.6.0.1_History.md</releaseNotes>
    <!-- =============================== -->  
  </metadata>
  <files>
    <file src="tools\**" target="tools" />
  </files>
</package>

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ferventcoder commented Feb 3, 2017 •
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Here is the nupkg (added .zip extension) to give you an idea of what it looks like - winpython.3.6.0.1.nupkg.zip

A nupkg is a fancy form of a compressed zip archive, so you can simply unzip it just as is and take a look at what is there. The two files I shared above are the only two files that you want as the rest is generated by the packaging.

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You could also include the binaries in the packaging, but I saw they were well over the 150MB limit that the community package repository has for including the binaries in the packaging itself.

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hi all. thanks @ferventcoder for the explanation. I may kick it a shot, when I will have finished dropping all legacy bagage: 2.7/3.4/Qt4/32bit

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