[Twisted-Python] Python3 twistd daemon for Ubuntu 14.04 alternatives

[Phil Mayers]

On 22/02/17 11:12, Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:

> I'm tempted to launch into a diatribe about namespacing, containers, and
> application isolation generally, but before I do - why is it that you
> /want/ to use the system Python environment?  Had you just not
> considered the option of virtual environments?

Awesome though it is, virtualenv can be very tedious if you need to 
install hundreds of megabytes of compiler and -devel packages. System 
packages are attractive precisely because you can avoid this.

I've had to do all sorts of tedious things with containers where I spin 
up a temporary container to build a bunch of .whl files, then actually 
install them in the final container - all to avoid bloating the 
container image with the build tools.

It's a real shame that binary wheels on Linux/PyPI aren't a thing. I 
understand the reasons why, but TBH it substantially reduces the value 
of the Python ecosystem for me.

Go is looking like a more and more attractive competitor to Python, 
frankly, having sidestepped this problem entirely.