[GitHub] [airflow] potiuk commented on issue #13838: Setting up Airflow for local development is hard

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potiuk commented on issue #13838:
URL: https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/13838#issuecomment-765611601


   My thoughts: 
   
   All for it as well. 
   
   Breeze is not at all designed for end-users :). I love the idea of @kaxil to integrate running "airflow" in the airflow command line. However there is one caveat -  the tool should be  - much more than Breeze - supported on Windows. And it should not be needed at all to checkout Airflow code to use it. So Installing airflow via PyPI and running "start-local-airflow" (or something like that) is one of the ways to do it.
   
   Unfortunately Airflow as a package is notoriously difficult to even install on Windows (not mentioning running)  - the #10388 and #12874 mentioned by @mik-laj  but also discussion at slack today (setproctitle preventing from installing airflow for user who wanted to just install  virtualenv on windows for Intellij autocompletion): https://apache-airflow.slack.com/archives/CCQ7EGB1P/p1611316718050700 
   
   So either we should improve the installability of airflow package on windows (not runnability - that's much more complex :)), or we have a different tool (either go - similar  as astro-cli or python). Go would be nicer for portability (we could relase convenience static binaries for different platforms) where python is better for our community to maintain.
   
   


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