Please make a new release of svgcheck

[dkg]

Thanks for all the work you've done recently getting svgcheck moved into git and cleaning up the project metadata and CI!

It would be great to make a new release, superceding 0.6.0, but pointing back to the updated project information.

I'm looking at putting svgcheck into debian to make it easier for folks to develop RFCs from debian and its derived operating systems, and having an updated release (even one that doesn't change much functionally) would be useful for that.

When you make the new release, please consider including the test data, because (as with https://github.com/ietf-tools/rfctools-common/issues/1) running standard tests on the current 0.6.0 module fails due to missing data.

[rjsparks]

We have several cleanup tasks to get this, and several related repositories, to a state where the CI we are targeting can actually work. In particular, see https://github.com/pypa/pypi-support/issues/1731. Sometimes these requests get processed quickly, and sometimes they don't. If this doesn't get attention in a few days, we'll start steps to work around it.

[rjsparks]

The tests are not structured such that `python -m unittest discover' will do the right thing, even with a full clone of the repository. Paths are not inferred correctly.

This will succeed (edited 4/6 to be a bit more complete):

git clone (some svgcheck reference)
python3 -mvenv env; source env/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt coverage
cd svgcheck
PYTHONPATH=.. python test.py

Note the need to install coverage in addition to what's in requirements.txt

[rjsparks]

Digging and thinking a bit further - is there an expectation that python -m unittest discover should work for all packages?

The current test environment expects tests to be run with tox (which takes care of the setup above). An alternate way to run the tests successfully is:

git clone (some svgcheck reference)
python3 -mvenv env; source env/bin/activate
pip install tox
tox -e py39-macos

or whatever python-platform you are testing on - choose from

envlist = py{27,36,37,38,39}-{linux,macos,windows}

at the moment.

[dkg]

hey there, it looks like v0.6.1 was tagged back in 2022-04-05, but it is not released on https://pypi.org/project/svgcheck/

as for the tests: i'd be fine with using tox for the tests if that's your preferred arrangement. I'm not sure what you'd want me to do for platforms other than linux, macos, and windows (some obscure Debian ports don't use linux, but instead rely on the FreeBSD or HURD kernels, for example), but that can wait; getting svgcheck published cleanly on PyPI is probably a higher priority.