Hi!
It is very easy to build Afanasy on Linux manually.
https://cgru.readthedocs.io/en/latest/i ... html#linux
You can try to do it, and ask here on some problems.
Python is much-much more bigger software than Afanasy, it will be not Afanasy with Python, it will be Python with Afanasy.
Also Linux packages (deb and rpm) idea is to install dependencies, and not to include them.
Or we should make some archive and installation executable like it is done for houdini or nuke, and it will not be a deb or rpm package.
I stand for a Linux package, not for some custom executable, as Linux packages are more native for Linux, they can be placed in some local studio repository.
But if will really need some other functionality in the future, I will think about some custom installation.
ps
Houdini and Nuke includes not only Python, and they can't include only Python. In order to have a custom Python version, compiled on some not system-native gcc, they also need to include other libraries that Python needs, and that other libraries has own dependencies too, and to on. That is why houdini and nuke distributives has size more than 1 GB.
pps
Python is not the only Afanasy library, there is also PySide and Qt. And I should know and manage all dependencies and sub-dependencies. For this, i need to hire and manage some programmers and Linux administrators.
This is why Linux packages is a much more easy and preferred way to distribute software for Linux.
And it is especially suitable for an open-source software, where people can maunally build it for any Python version.