make packaging much easier for downstreams

koobs commented 10 years ago

I'm working on adding geeknote into the FreeBSD Ports tree, and the two automated mechanisms available to obtain distribution files are pypi and github (using tags).

Unfortunately neither are an option at the moment, as the sdist hasnt been uploaded to pypi, nor have git tags been added to the geeknote repository. Can you please:

sdist upload distribution to PyPi (Minimum: tar.gz, plus other formats if desired)
Versioning: Add git tags to repository for the current, and each pypi ("released") version moving forward.

Apart from these two things, here's a few other things that will help me and others make quicker progress packaging geeknote for FreeBSD and other operating system environments:

Use semantic versioning (declare it + follow. See: http://semver.org/)
Declare explicit Python 2.x / 3.x compatibility in setup.py
Clarify LICENSE (GPL v2 / v3)
- Add LICENSE file to repository

oomka commented 9 years ago

+1 Thank you for fixing the port!

koobs commented 9 years ago

My pleasure @oomka, let's hope upstream can sort out their packaging to make it easier for everyone next time ;)

kzys commented 9 years ago

FYI, the license issue is also mentioned in #244.

maffblaster commented 8 years ago

+1

vitalyrodnenko / geeknote

make packaging much easier for downstreams #212