Investigate packaging on PyPi

EDCD / EDMarketConnector

Downloads commodity market and other station data from the game Elite: Dangerous for use with all popular online and offline trading tools.

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Investigate packaging on PyPi #1107

Open Athanasius opened 3 years ago

Athanasius commented 3 years ago

There's almost certainly going to be a caveat of "you need your OS's version of tkinter for python installed first", but in theory we could start building and distributing a wheel.

Athanasius commented 3 years ago

[ ] Initially just concentrate on making a wheel that works so long as the system python works, including tkinter.
[ ] After that look into if we could make a wrapper script that will, for supported OSes and distributions, attempt to check/install the necessary.

Athanasius commented 3 years ago

If we try to support a situation in which:

We can't guarantee there's a terminal/console to print to that's visible to the user.
tkinter isn't available so we can't make a popup window.
No reasonably common "display some text in a popup" utility is available.
Then write the message to a file, probably HTML, and ask the system to open it. This would either open a web browser tab/window to show it, or possibly a text editor.