Is there a decent alternative to "pip bundle"?

Question

I use pip bundle for my production systems, and today I was greeted with the following disheartening message:

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##  Due to lack of interest and maintenance, ##
##  'pip bundle' and support for installing  ##
##  from *.pybundle files is now deprecated, ##
##  and will be removed in pip v1.5.         ##
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My servers auto-scale and build themselves out automatically, but I've been burned before by relying on PyPi being available. Instead, I use pip bundle and commit the .pybundle file to the source git repo. This means I only need to rely on a single source for building my servers.

With pip bundle going away (and who knows when) I need an alternative method to use - are there any suggestions or similar methods of packaging up dependencies for production distribution?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Use the new wheel format; wheel builds on pip to bundle packages into a ZIP format.

Alternatively, you could install an egg proxy; we use Buildout together with a local egg proxy to manage package dependencies and versioning in development and production enviroments.