Please upload to PyPI

[Jody McIntyre]

Can you please upload this package to PyPI? It would make installing using standard tools (pip, and especially using pip freeze) easier.

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Hi Jody, this is a consequence of PEP 470, see http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0470/. PyPi's maximum package size is something 20Mb, and savReaderWriter is way bigger. That's why it's only hosted on Bitbucket. The good folks of Pypi are willing to make an exception, though, but this is not yet effective. To be continued.... :-)

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Issue #43 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

Issue #44 was marked as a duplicate of this issue.

[Jody McIntyre]

Thanks for the update! The biggest issue I'm facing with not having it on PyPi is that every time we run pip install -r requirements.txt pip grabs a new copy of savReaderWriter from Bitbucket, and if Bitbucket is down our build fails. So I'm glad you're working on this :)

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

You're welcome :) That's annoying indeed. Isn't it possible to pip install from local files?

$ pip install --no-index --find-links=DIR -r requirements.txt

https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/user_guide/#id21

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

And Bitbucket et al being down was exactly the rationale for PEP 470 and not allowing externals

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

okay, I just uploaded version 3.4.0 to Pypi. Unless you're on a mainframe (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris or zLinux), you can install by using

pip install savReaderWriter --upgrade

If you happen to be one of the ive-or-so persons in the world who's using the module on a mainframe, the pip install should be followed by

python -m savReaderWriter.util.download_mainframe_libs

(by excluding those libs I managed to stay below the Pypi upload limit)

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

3.4.0 now available (at last!)

[Jody McIntyre]

Awesome, thanks a lot!