From 9fec2e6d7217ab88e287e6b58f4107e5df41e755 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "andy.mackinlay" Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 08:57:07 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] added readme --- plugins/pipx/README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 plugins/pipx/README.md diff --git a/plugins/pipx/README.md b/plugins/pipx/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..340cbe9 --- /dev/null +++ b/plugins/pipx/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +## Pipx Plugin for Python + +Installs [pipx](https://pipx.pypa.io) which can be used to bootstrap other system level python tools, and ensure they run in their own dedicated virtual environment. At Culture Amp this is used to install [poetry](https://python-poetry.org). + +### How it works + +Simply declares that `pipx` should be installed in its devbox Virtenv directory, and adds the `bin` directory under there to the system path, so that packages installed using `pipx` are available to the user (and other packages) in the devbox shell. \ No newline at end of file