https://github.com/stuaxo/add-dist-package

Create symlinks to system packages inside the current virtualenv or specified.
https://github.com/stuaxo/add-dist-package

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Create symlinks to system packages inside the current virtualenv or specified.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stuaxo/add-dist-package
• Owner: stuaxo
• License: mit
• Created: 2012-11-18T16:46:39.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2015-03-16T08:38:27.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-03-23T02:06:14.579Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 168 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
PROJECT SUPERCEDED 

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This project is superceeded by 'Vext' it is truely cross platform and makes using the system Gtk, Qt

as simple as ```pip install vext.pygtk``` ```pip install vext.pyqt4```

https://github.com/stuaxo/vext

add-dist-packagte README

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Easily manage system packages in virtual environments.

Install:

$ pip install -e git+https://github.com/stuaxo/add-dist-package.git#egg=add-dist-package

Operating System Support:

Linux:

Python 2.7 - Tested, seems to work OK

Python 3.x - Untested

Windows:

Before Vista - Uses symlinks so will not work (possibly a solution using .pth files might work)

Vista and Later - May work (untested)

OSX:

Untested - likely to work.

Options:

-a --list-available

Lists system python packages available for symlinking.

-i --install package [package ...]

Create a symlink in to a one of the packages in the system python.

-u --uninstall package [package ...]

Remove symlinks in the virtualenv to system python. 

--virtualenv

Specify a virtualenv directory.

Defaults to the VIRTUAL_ENV environment variable, which is set when you

are in a virtual environment.

Examples:

Activate your virtualenv and make sure add-dist-env is installed.

Gtk2:

add-dist-package -i glib gobject gtk-2.0 pygtk.pth cairo

Gtk3 (Introspection repository):

add-dist-package -i gi

Thanks:

Stackoverflow answers such as these:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3580520/python-virtualenv-gtk-2-0

Copying System Packages into Virtualenv r/python

http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1394dz/copying_system_packages_into_virtualenv/

For expressing that such a thing was needed.

License:

License is MIT style permissive, the same as virtualenv.