Zippy is a tool for bundling your application and all of its dependencies into a single installable.

Zippifying applications is actually quite easy, but requires that your application is setuptools compatible. The only other requirement is a pydist.json file (PEP 426) with at least a name, version and list of requirements.

From your zippy directory, invoke the install command from the zippy.zscript module and point it at your application:

# python \
    -mzippy.zscript \
    --prefix=/path/to/installdir \
    --destdir=/path/to/destdir \
    --reqirements=/path/to/application \
    install

Zippy does not currently support git URLs for requirements, but it can process requirements that can be sourced locally; use the --locator argument to direct zippy toward your local versions.

For django-cloud, here is how zippy is invoked (./zippy subdirectory):

# python \
    -mzippy.zscript \
    --prefix=/opt/corvisa/zippy-django-cloud \
    --destdir=build/zippy-django-cloud \
    --requirements=.. \
    --locator=../packages/\* \
    install

This produces a packaged/directly-usable python binary:

build/zippy-django-cloud/opt/corvisa/zippy-django-cloud/bin/python

containing django-cloud and all of its dependencies:

# ./build/zippy-django-cloud/opt/corvisa/zippy-django-cloud/bin/python
Python 2.7.7 (default, Oct 23 2014, 21:46:09)
[GCC 4.8.2] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> from corvisacloud import settings
>>>