poopip: for when pip is too slow 💩

poopip is a tiny python package installer/uninstaller designed for working on local (i.e. already in your filesystem) pure python packages

poopip has very few features, but this makes it fast! 🔥

get poopip

assuming you have your favorite virtual environemnt already set up, you can run

pip install poopip

or else you can clone this repo and issue

python poopip/poopip.py install poopip/

usage

for some/path/to/a/package the following should work:

# install to our current environment
poop install some/path/to/a/thing
# install globally for current user
poop --user install some/path/to/a/thing
# install in "editable" mode
poop install -e some/path/to/a/thing
# uninstall package from current environment
poop uninstall thing
# uninstall user's global package
poop --user uninstall thing

generally poopip will take the name of the directory as the name of the package and assume the code is either at thing/thing.py, or a directory thing/thing/ - it's on our todo list to read the pyproject.toml for this.

goals

• fast: aims to be the fastest step in your dev/ci process
• small: single file under 1000 lines of code
• portable: pure python, zero dependencies
• readable: reading the source code will tell you something about how installs work

On the portability front, currently poopip only officially supports linux - contributions are welcome.

non-goals

• requirements: poopip doesn't care about your package's requirements, just use a requirements file and install them yourself
• pypa specifications: poopip doesn't aim to implement all of the specifications where they conflict with its goals
• setup.py: we have no intention of supporting setup.py or even dynamic pyproject fields

Note that while poopip understands and can update or uninstall pip-installed packages the converse is not true. The reason is that poopip's metadata operates at the directory level, whereas pip relies upon a list of individual files - creating this list is slow with large packages, so we don't do it. Use poopip to unistall poopip-installed packages.

benchmarks

Here's how long it takes to install poopip itself (a zero-dependency, single python file) with various tools. In the regular old install case, poopip is up to 300x faster than pip!

Flit's not really a package manager, but it is much faster than pip if we use symlinks (flit install -s --deps none), so if you're after a good dev experience and only want to install in editable mode I would highly recomend it as a more sane option.