What is this

"Pybi" is a new format for distributing Python interpreters. For more details, see this draft spec.

While working on it, I've made some preliminary pybis for most versions of CPython 3.6+ on Windows/macOS/Linux, and they're available here: https://pybi.vorpus.org

This repo has the hacky tools I used to make those preliminary pybis. Parts of this are pretty sophisticated. Other parts are duct tape and chicken wire to that will only work for the exact pipeline I used.

Overview

The Windows pybis are repacks of the official nuget packages maintained by Steve Dower; do-win.py uses the nuget API to find them all and repack them.

The macOS pybis are repacks for the official macOS framework builds from https://python.org/downloads, munged by Greg Neagle's scripts to make them relocatable. do-macos.py scrapes python.org to automatically find these builds.

The Linux pybis are build by hand, but reusing most of the manylinux docker image build scripts, with a few tweaks. Then linux_vendor.py does some hacky stuff to trick auditwheel into working on an unpacked pybi.

Notes to self

To add new pybis:

• on sidra, add to built/ directory

• on sidra, run python3 regen-simple.py

• go to the $web container in azure portal and get a SAS token

• on sidra, in built/ directory, run:

  az storage blob sync -s . --account-name pybi --container '$web' --sas-token [token]