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		stubish on July 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “We do not plan to publish the AWS CLI project to ... It works fine for pure Python applications. Especially if you use Python virtual environments to keep your application's dependencies isolated from the system-level installed libraries. An application is just a Python package or module, with a small stub stuck in $PATH that does the equivalent of 'python -m mystuf'. One of the nice benefits is users get to install things into $HOME if they don't want to pollute the 'system' install, even if they don't want to mess with the virtual environment features.

sergiomattei on July 30, 2021 [–]

You know what, that's actually quite true. I realize that it's good to make sure everyone on a team has access to the same command line tools as well.

Just pip install the virtualenv and boom, cli tools in, for everyone.

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