#general
- r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:21 AMisnt pex technically pantsbuild dogfood tho? - e
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09/03/2015, 6:21 AMyes - and we dogfood it to run all of ci - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:21 AMic - e
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09/03/2015, 6:21 AMbasically - for big company, distribution dream - e
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09/03/2015, 6:21 AMfor oss project distribution nightmare - e
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09/03/2015, 6:22 AMits completely opposite - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:22 AMaha - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:22 AMmakes sense - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:22 AM“how ppl outside of twitter use python" - e
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09/03/2015, 6:22 AMWickman recently spruced up a contrib and added a setuptools command to pex - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:22 AMtries to remember those days - e
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09/03/2015, 6:22 AMif you have pex in a venv w setuptools you have bdist_pex - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:22 AMya saw that - e
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09/03/2015, 6:22 AMk - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:23 AMalso to be clear - e
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09/03/2015, 6:23 AMso client-side pex builds of pants would probably use that - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:23 AMif we had no native deps, pex would be great right? - e
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09/03/2015, 6:23 AMyes - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:23 AMits the native deps that are the hassle it seems - e
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09/03/2015, 6:23 AMyes, but I firmly believe thats not going away - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:23 AMoh not saying it is at all - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:23 AMtho have seen at least one ~stab at it - e
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09/03/2015, 6:24 AMI just have a hard time imagining how we'd ever support - say windows - without psutil for one - e
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09/03/2015, 6:24 AMwe'd be re-implementing it in a crappy way using weird shell-outs - e
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09/03/2015, 6:25 AMwhich we used to do in pants - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:25 AMor com32 python libs? - e
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09/03/2015, 6:25 AMassume /proc - e
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09/03/2015, 6:25 AMthat sort of stuff - r
rough-minister-58256
09/03/2015, 6:25 AMyeah - e
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09/03/2015, 6:25 AMpex is awesome if you control the user base