wireless and python

[Seth Arnold]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 01:19:01AM -0400, Christian Grippo wrote:
> I just installed snappy in beaglebone rev c, but now I can't solve the
> following issues....specially installing the wireless..... any help would
> be appreciated....
> 
> 1) How do you install python
> 
> sudo snappy install python-pip python-setuptools python-smbus
> 
> 
> Installing python-pip
> 
> python-pip failed to install: snappy package not found
> 
> 
> snappy doesn't seem to have anything that I normally could get with sudo
> apt-get install

Hello,

I know Manik already gave you some feedback but I wanted to give a second
opinion.

I think Python and modules are things that you would supply yourself in
the snap:

- Python upgrades are often not backwards-compatible. You test your
  software, and all your dependencies, with whatever version of Python
  you'd want to deploy. If you want a newer Python, you want to test
  your code and deps extensively first.

- Installing modules on the fly at runtime introduces complex errors --
  some packages may not download, other packages may have been replaced
  in transit by a malicious entity, developers may have accidentally
  uploaded a completely broken version, or a subtly broken version
  that is fatal for your application, an update may require more of
  the operating system than snappy can provide, or the system might run
  out disk space. If you bundle the modules in your snap, you get the
  transactional update behaviour for free from snappy and don't need to
  consider any of these errors.

- Providing your own dependencies gives you the opportunity to configure
  and compile the bare minimum which may have storage, speed, and security
  benefits.

Of course, the flip side of the equation is that you become responsible
for all security and reliability updates of all your dependencies. But you
get an opportunity to test your software before deploying the fixes and
you can ensure all the dependencies work well together.

Thanks
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