Nuisance warnings from tox

[michaelmhoffman]

On my system (Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2) I get two warnings when starting tox.

1. Warning: No long description generated.
2. UserWarning: Normalizing 'v4.3.0' to '4.3.0'

$ tox
Warning: No long description generated.
/mnt/c/Users/mhoffman/src/collab/gcalcli/.tox/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:476: UserWarning: Normalizing 'v4.3.0' to '4.3.0'
  normalized_version,

[jcrowgey]

Both of these are related to package building. The former is an important one because we want to make sure we generate the long-description before pushing a package to pypi.

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 01:17:06PM -0700, Michael Hoffman wrote: On my system (Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2) I get two warnings when starting tox. 1. `Warning: No long description generated.`

This is because we build the long description from the README file using pypandoc (iirc) when we release using an external module (pypandoc), see setup.py. If you're just building the package for testing (like tox does), no one really needs to read the long description. You might be able to avoid the warning by putting pypandoc in the tox requirements---but then you'll have a kind of unnecessary dependency for simply running tests.

2. `UserWarning: Normalizing 'v4.3.0' to '4.3.0'`

Conventions differ across codebases and languages as to whether or not semvers bear a preceding v. For Python, this is unusual, and so setuptools are letting us know that. gcalcli was using the preceding 'v' on its version tags before I came to the project. It might be nice to drop the preceding 'v' in setup.py. That would allow us to keep the project tradition with respect to git-tags and to build Python packages without complaints about the versions. version = __version__[1:] if __version__.startswith('v') else __version__

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``` $ tox Warning: No long description generated. /mnt/c/Users/mhoffman/src/collab/gcalcli/.tox/py35/lib/python3.5/site-packages/setuptools/dist.py:476: UserWarning: Normalizing 'v4.3.0' to '4.3.0' normalized_version, ``` -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: #554

[michaelmhoffman]

Thanks, making a tox.local.ini with added dependency on pypandoc and using tox -c tox.local.ini fixes the first problem.

Your solution to problem 2 looks good to me.

[dbarnett]

I updated setup.py and files for metadata/packaging, suspect both of those issues are obsolete now.