Publish this package to PyPI

[aht007]

Background

This package is currently installed into edx-platform directly from GitHub. This is non-ideal because:

• GitHub-hosted requirements take significantly longer (> 4x) to install than PyPI-hosted requirements
• GitHub-hosted requirement pins cannot be upgraded using edX's standard make upgrade workflow.

Request

• Audit this package's setup.py to make sure it looks right before publishing. You can test it out by:
  • creating a virtual environment
  • installing package requirements
  • running python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
  • checking the contents of the generated dist/ folder. The folder should contain a .tar.gz that can be unpacked, yielding the contents of what would be pushed to PyPI. The unpacked .tar.gz should include all Python source files (other than test files) as well as a LICENSE and any assets/resources needed for the block to work.
• Publish this package to PyPI whenever a release happens.
• Trigger a release to publish this package to PyPI

[pkulkark]

Thanks @aht007. We'll create a task on our end to look into this and update here.

[kdmccormick]

Hey @pkulkark , do you think you will be able to finish this soon?

[pkulkark]

@kdmccormick Sorry for the delay. This is nearly ready but we're trying to tie up a few loose ends. I'll post here once it's ready.

[kdmccormick]

All good, thanks!

[pkulkark]

@kdmccormick This is done. We've added the required workflow to publish to pypi whenever a release happens, and triggered it. c.f. https://pypi.org/project/xblock-poll/

[kdmccormick]

Wonderful, thank you!

Could you apply this change to edx-platform by removing xblock-poll from github.in, adding it to base.in, and running make compile-requirements?