The ActiveState Platform is a SaaS platform for open-source language automation, enabling the centralized creation, certification, and resolution of runtime environments. It brings more than 20 years of engineering experience to automate much of the complexity involved in creating, maintaining, and sharing Python and Perl runtime environments.
With minimal expertise, a developer can automatically create open-source language runtime environments, resolve dependencies, and certify them against compliance and security criteria. The result is a consistent, reproducible runtime environment from development through production.
In this latest release, the company added more than 50 000 package versions, covering the most popular Python packages 2 and 3, as well as their dependencies. These dependencies can be automatically resolved, built, and packaged into runtime environments to eliminate issues.
“Python is currently one of the most popular programming languages on the planet, so it’s no surprise that most of the more than 200 000 developers on the ActiveState platform are asking us to do more to support their Python development efforts. To enable our customers to automatically build all Python packages, even those containing C code, we’re developing systems to verify the code and metadata for every package on PyPI. Today’s release is an important first step toward that goal,” says Jeff Rouse, VP of Product Management at ActiveState.
The company is preparing for Python 2 EOL and has, in the process, verified thousands of key Python 2 packages that are critical to supporting customers’ Python 2 applications. In addition, the company added many of the most popular Python 3 packages to support the needs of its extensive customer base. This is an important milestone on the way to making the entire Python Package Index (PyPI) available on the ActiveState platform.
