Publish on PyPI?

[FriedrichFroebel]

I would like to see gamera to be available on PyPI (which is why I just submitted PR #64 to at least complete the basic information). This should improve the installation experience for packages which depend on gamera and which have to rely on GitHub-based installations at the moment.

Unfortunately, this is currently blocked by an existing package under the same name by an (unknown?) user Glass.Cube, which only provides a Windows binary for Python 2.7 and gamera version 3.3.3, uploaded in 2012. To take over the package, it seems like https://peps.python.org/pep-0541/#how-to-request-a-name-transfer applies (the URL points to the general gamera webpage at HSNR and there is no public contact address as far as I am aware).

Is there any interest on your side to tackle this? Alternatively, if it is okay for you, I would try to work on this myself.

[cdalitz]

Yes, please have a look into this. Thanks for taking the trouble.

Does the availability on PyPI create maintenance issues in the future?

[FriedrichFroebel]

Does the availability on PyPI create maintenance issues in the future?

There should be no general overhead when doing this. The only additional step is pushing the source distribution to PyPI on each release, which is easy to automate or to do manually.

[cdalitz]

pushing the source distribution to PyPI
Do you have some documentation how to do this?

[FriedrichFroebel]

The official documentation is available at https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/tutorials/packaging-projects/. The easiest way could look like this:

1. python3 setup.py sdist
2. python3 -m twine upload dist/*