Environment management mechanism

[Tom-Willemsen]

As a developer I would like to use a better & faster mechanism for packaging up a python interpreter + some bundled libraries, without doing lots of robocopies in .bat scripts.

Likely search term to get started is "python environment management" - lots of tools exist for this, investigate which one best fits our use cases.

Follow-on from ISISComputingGroup/IBEX#8381

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e.g.

• uv (likely a very strong contender)
• hatch
• conda
• pyenv
• pipenv
• poetry
• "just install docker everywhere"
• daytona
• pipx
• pyenv-win
• ansible

[Tom-Willemsen]

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/overview/ lists various deployment models and links to many tools which may be of use