Please release a new version to test packaging

[DamienCassou]

Hi,

after the changes you have made in #354, could you please release a new version on pypi (even tagged alpha if you want) that packagers can test? I wanted to test the master branch instead, but your makefile detects it and refuses to continue.

Thanks

[untitaker]

I wanted to test the master branch instead, but your makefile detects it and refuses to continue.

This surprises me. I suppose you're talking about the error about version.py? We need the .git folder intact to generate the proper dev version.

[untitaker]

I released 0.9.1.

[untitaker]

@DamienCassou Could you post the full error message you got while trying to test from master?

[DamienCassou]

@untitaker here is is

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "nix_run_setup.py", line 6, in <module>
    exec(compile(getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\\r\\n', '\\n'), __file__, 'exec'))
  File "setup.py", line 56, in <module>
    'remotestorage': ['requests-oauthlib']
  File "/nix/store/nd1xb6fkm46in9hp78bmby488m95jd96-python3-3.4.4/lib/python3.4/distutils/core.py", line 108, in setup
    _setup_distribution = dist = klass(attrs)
  File "/nix/store/p3zjri6zip71h00vznfl4ydib9fqk4l6-python3.4m-setuptools-19.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/setuptools-19.4-py3.4.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 272, in __init__
  File "/nix/store/nd1xb6fkm46in9hp78bmby488m95jd96-python3-3.4.4/lib/python3.4/distutils/dist.py", line 280, in __init__
    self.finalize_options()
  File "/nix/store/p3zjri6zip71h00vznfl4ydib9fqk4l6-python3.4m-setuptools-19.4/lib/python3.4/site-packages/setuptools-19.4-py3.4.egg/setuptools/dist.py", line 327, in finalize_options
  File "/nix/store/hph4cxkkvn60fdd4xwjwnbsk4zvq0xr1-python3.4-setuptools_scm-1.10.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/setuptools_scm/integration.py", line 19, in version_keyword
    dist.metadata.version = get_version(**value)
  File "/nix/store/hph4cxkkvn60fdd4xwjwnbsk4zvq0xr1-python3.4-setuptools_scm-1.10.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/setuptools_scm/__init__.py", line 102, in get_version
    version = _do_parse(root, parse)
  File "/nix/store/hph4cxkkvn60fdd4xwjwnbsk4zvq0xr1-python3.4-setuptools_scm-1.10.1/lib/python3.4/site-packages/setuptools_scm/__init__.py", line 80, in _do_parse
    "use git+https://github.com/user/proj.git#egg=proj" % root)
LookupError: setuptools-scm was unable to detect version for '/tmp/nix-build-vdirsyncer-git-0.9.0.drv-0/vdirsyncer-0.9.0-src'.

Make sure you're not using GitHub's tarballs (or similar ones), as those don't contain the necessary metadata. Use PyPI's tarballs instead.

For example, if you're using pip, instead of https://github.com/user/proj/archive/master.zip use git+https://github.com/user/proj.git#egg=proj

[untitaker]

@DamienCassou Okay, you probably don't have the .git folder intact. Is this worth mentioning in the packaging docs, or is building from master too obscure of a usecase?

[DamienCassou]

@untitaker oh, that might be a problem of nix: I think that nix removes the .git folder for reproducibility reasons. I would not bother documenting it: your documentation already recommends using pypi tarballs instead.

[untitaker]

@DamienCassou I don't really understand Nix' reasoning behind deleting the .git folder (since there's nothing non-deterministic in building from a commit hash?)

I opened https://github.com/pypa/setuptools_scm/pull/82 to improve setuptools-scm's error message.

[DamienCassou]

I forgot the reason for removing the .git folder, I guess some files in .git and/or timestamps are non deterministic. In this case, I think Nix just downloaded the github tarball which doesn't contain the .git folder if I'm correct.

[untitaker]

Closing this as there's nothing left to be done.

[DamienCassou]

Just to let you know: nix now runs tests for vdirsyncer automatically. Thank you for all your help and documentation.

[untitaker]

yay!

you're welcome, and thanks for packaging.