the bootstrap readme / utilities described in the readme not working on Ubuntu 20.04

robdennis commented 1 year ago

Issue:

on a fresh clone on an Ubuntu 20.04 VM, attempt to execute the readme steps of:

git clone "https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj.git"
cd "configobj"
command . .env --yes --develop  # add '--virtualenv /usr/bin/virtualenv' for Python2
invoke build --docs test doctest check

Received an issue related to being unable to find the virtualenv execuatable.

After updating .env to the newest version of what's in: https://github.com/Springerle/py-generic-project/blob/master/%7B%7Bcookiecutter.repo_name%7D%7D/.env

and got a new error related to incompatible invoke dependencies due to what the rituals package wants and what invoke is pinned to.

After attempting to depend on newer versions, I'm getting a new set of errors, that when fixed lead to new issues

What's next?

decide if we need to push through to figure it out (and deal with more dependency churn as it comes up)
undo the invoke / rituals-based onboarding
fork off 5.0.6 for a release that doesn't base on master so it's not blocking 5.1.0 but we don't actually delete anything

Background

there's ~110 commits since 5.0.6 which is a lot and makes it higher risk to try to "do something focused" in a defined amount of time

robdennis commented 1 year ago

this is the kind of thing that blocks #213

sheromon commented 1 year ago

I'm not happy that you had problems with setting up the environment, but I'm glad it wasn't just me. I fumbled through getting venv to work and probably hit similar problems (e.g. rituals wanted a "copyright" in the project description). My guess was that some parts of .env are holdovers from days of supporting Python 2, maybe? I did not make it very far until deciding I must be doing something wrong.

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