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hsnr-gamera / gamera-4

Gamera 4 for Python 3
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Publish on PyPI? #65

Closed FriedrichFroebel closed 3 months ago

FriedrichFroebel commented 1 year ago

I would like to see gamera to be available on PyPI (which is why I just submitted PR #64 to at least complete the basic information). This should improve the installation experience for packages which depend on gamera and which have to rely on GitHub-based installations at the moment.

Unfortunately, this is currently blocked by an existing package under the same name by an (unknown?) user Glass.Cube, which only provides a Windows binary for Python 2.7 and gamera version 3.3.3, uploaded in 2012. To take over the package, it seems like https://peps.python.org/pep-0541/#how-to-request-a-name-transfer applies (the URL points to the general gamera webpage at HSNR and there is no public contact address as far as I am aware).

Is there any interest on your side to tackle this? Alternatively, if it is okay for you, I would try to work on this myself.

cdalitz commented 1 year ago

Yes, please have a look into this. Thanks for taking the trouble.

Does the availability on PyPI create maintenance issues in the future?

FriedrichFroebel commented 1 year ago

Does the availability on PyPI create maintenance issues in the future?

There should be no general overhead when doing this. The only additional step is pushing the source distribution to PyPI on each release, which is easy to automate or to do manually.

cdalitz commented 1 year ago

pushing the source distribution to PyPI Do you have some documentation how to do this?

FriedrichFroebel commented 1 year ago

The official documentation is available at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-projects/. The easiest way could look like this:

  1. python3 setup.py sdist
  2. python3 -m twine upload dist/*
FriedrichFroebel commented 4 months ago

It took its time, but the gamera project on PyPI has finally been transferred to my account.

I will have to do some tests and would upload the official gamera-4.1.0.tar.gz source distribution there if I observe no issues during testing. Of course, I am open to provide access to the PyPI project for the actual maintainers/group members as well.

FriedrichFroebel commented 3 months ago

Version 4.1.0 is now available as a source distribution from PyPI and I could successfully build and install it with the usual pip install gamera.