On 08/21/2018 11:53 AM, Alan Gauld via Tutor wrote: > On 21/08/18 14:10, Glenn Schultz via Tutor wrote: > >> Either I am a complete moron or packaging python is a poorly documented >> nightmare. > > I suspect the latter is true to some extent. > To be fair Python packaging was a complete mess for > many years with competing technologies and tools. > It is only in the last 3 years or so that things > have settled down so it wouldn't surprise me if > the documentation is still catching up. > > However, I virtually never build packages so can't > really comment, but hopefully somebody else can help. > > What would be more useful to such a person is if > you can send the actual code and error messages, > since saying you had to comment out 70% of the > lines because of warnings doesn't really tell us very > much. It may be that you could safely ignore the > warnings or it may indicate a more serious > underlying error. But as of now we are just > guessing. > >
I don't think packaging has made anybody really happy for... like... forever. I put this video on my to-watch list when scanning the PyCon material from this year's US event. Haven't watched it yet - maybe this is the prod needed! - but I'm hoping it's a coherent "current state of the art" report. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQsZsgJ30AE _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
