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Currently I am developing automated test framework. This test-framework has different packages. These packages will be refer in different project and these may be modified locally by the developer. I want to manage the python package eggs. I am thinking of using Artifactory. I tried to look for Artifactory help for Python,But I couldn't get anything useful.
should I use Artifactory or PIP ?

Edit:
Is there any way or command in python which can help me to put the eggs in artifactory?

Rakesh
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    Sorry, completely offtopic but: I am the only one who saw the headline and thought of "snake omelette"? – SJuan76 Jul 16 '12 at 22:16
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    @SJuan76 hmm... :-).. well python packages can be provided as eggs(I don't know why they keep this name) same way as we provide jar file for java packages. – Rakesh Jul 16 '12 at 22:24
  • Is this connected to your other post "How to put any file in artifactory using Python": http://stackoverflow.com/q/11514693/1395668? – Andrew Alcock Jul 17 '12 at 09:08
  • @Rakesh I presume it's related to the idea of snakes laying eggs, but I guess there could by a skit I don't know. – pcurry Jan 18 '19 at 20:48

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There are numerous reasons to prefer a binary repository manager over a simple shared directory/SCM binary storage:

  1. Fine grained security.
  2. Ability to proxy and cache remote repositories.
  3. More efficient handling of binaries (because it's a tool that's tailored to do so).
  4. Sharing the binaries with other teams and the world is a lot safer and easier.
  5. Integration with many tools in the ecosystem.
  6. Search and manipulation facilities.
  7. Administration tools.

Artifactory exposes a very rich REST API and the deployment of any artifact can be achieved by a simple HTTP PUT request.

noamt
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Take a look at the Defend Against Fruit project. It provides the previously missing glue between Python and Artifactory. http://teamfruit.github.io/defend_against_fruit/

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You can use "in house" PyPi (either with easy_install -f ... or pip -f ...).

For a server you can have just Apache serving a directory with all the eggs or something like http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pypiserver

Miki Tebeka
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