Re: [GMG-Devel] Fwd: Important notice about your projects on PyPI

[Matt Molyneaux]

On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 12:24 -0400, Thompson, David wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 8, 2015 at 11:55 AM, Matt Molyneaux
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-10-08 at 10:40 -0500, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
> > > So I guess we should deal with this.
> > > 
> > > I think I'm going to be revisiting python packaging in the next
> > > few
> > > weeks.  We've never done a proper release tarball / sdist that I
> > > think
> > > is actually usable.  Time to change that.
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Yup, would be nice to have a "bundle" with all the external JS
> > rolled
> > in etc. so I don't have to install Node.JS to deploy Mediagoblin :)
> 
> That sounds problematic.  The released tarball should contain source
> code only, no binaries.
> 
> - Dave

Ah, I wasn't being clear. I meant the PyPI release only. I think it's
something of a barrier to entry for new users to have to install Node
etc. when Mediagoblin itself doesn't require Node to run.

A release tarball for distros and people who know what they're doing
would of course have nothing bundled.

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