Feedback : Section 6 - Publishing Python Packages

[ns-rse]

The final challenge here lacks a clear solution where people can have a solid takeaway/reference to understand and refer back to.

The description is still fairly manual but there is the pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish that can be leveraged to make the task somewhat simpler.

I've used this in a couple of packages, you can see example in AFM-SPM/TopoStats. I have an additional set of project.optional-dependencies defined in pyproject.toml in the list pypi which are specifically installed prior to building the package...

[project.optional-dependencies]
...
pypi = [
  "build",
  "setuptools_scm[toml]",
  "wheel",
]

Also PyPI now supports Trusted Publishers which makes it really simple to configure GitHub/GitLab to publish packages.

[RicCampbell]

In the licensing section, would it be possible to change '..your selection of license may be influenced by the licenses of your dependencies.' to constrained please as it does have a direct impact on choice (or lack of) of licence. All very good though!

[f-allian]

The final challenge here lacks a clear solution where people can have a solid takeaway/reference to understand and refer back to.

The description is still fairly manual but there is the pypa/gh-action-pypi-publish that can be leveraged to make the task somewhat simpler.

I've used this in a couple of packages, you can see example in AFM-SPM/TopoStats. I have an additional set of project.optional-dependencies defined in pyproject.toml in the list pypi which are specifically installed prior to building the package...

[project.optional-dependencies]
...
pypi = [
  "build",
  "setuptools_scm[toml]",
  "wheel",
]

Also PyPI now supports Trusted Publishers which makes it really simple to configure GitHub/GitLab to publish packages.

@ns-rse thanks for this comment and apologies for the late reply, I must have missed it.

My thought process here was to first demonstrate the manual method of releasing packages before discussing automated workflows. Challenge 3 demos how to automate this. I think my solution was probably too manual, so I'll make it more interactive to rectify this.