add client requirements to a vendor folder or zip file

Many of the troubles people have with this client is around the dependencies. There are nice ideas around like this one that make all of those go away. Starting this thread to discuss supporting something like that for this client to make it self sufficient to run on any platform.

My idea is for the first try to have all dependencies packaged in a file called vendor.zip and release it with the package (or make it downloadable through the release page). Then add a parameter to load_kube_config and load_incluster_config methods to accept the path to this file and use them instead of system packages.

This approach generally works with pure python packages that I believe it is the case for our client. Any thoughts?

[tomplus]

@dims it sounds good, we can also create a optional solution with vendor.zip for developers who have to use other versions in their project.

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