I am wondering and pondering what python setup to use. Portable in sense of Portable Python in Windows (but i need such for Linux).
I am working on python project with a lot of dependencies , including C/C++ libraries , reuses some perl scripts , and even Java Tika lib to parse multiple document types. I want to put them all in local folder and bundle it so that they do not have to re-install when i am going to set it up on different servers (which have different Linux Distro , Gentoo , Ubuntu and Redhat ).
I wont use python provided by distro because it causes many headaches.
From studying around , these are choices I got :
1 - VirtualENV (But it defeat my purpose as it is not designed to relocate).
2 - Statically Compiling Python (Not sure how it will work, I do not see many success stories on it)
3 - Local (Manually) Compiling Python (Wont work at different Libc version right?)
Any other choices ? Please let me know..
Thanks in advance.
virtualenv is problematic, because it needs the libraries from the computer. Because nowadays most linux distros have python installed by default, the only case that'll be a problem is when the installed version on the computer is different than the one you're using.
However, I believe you can fix that by copying all the libs on PYTHONPATH that are placed on your local installation to the virtualenv folder.
I don't know about 2 or 3, but you could also try to manually compile python to your USB disk and pip your libraries.