Release on PyPI

[janbrohl]

As this package already is installable via pip, semver-versioned >=1.0.0, open source licensed - why not release on PyPI?

[christiansiegel]

For us that was not a high priority yet as we only use the docker image.

Some things we might look into before releasing on PyPI:

• support and tests for more than one python version (currently only 3.8 is used in the docker build/test; I think even 3.7 doesn't work at the moment)
• support windows (currently the temporary directory for git checkout is hardcoded to /tmp)
• add proper error message if there is no git installed (currently probably results in an ugly exception)

All of those improvements would also benefit #104.

[janbrohl]

Currently the Setup Page does not indicate any specific prerequisites for installing from source - would this be a new issue?

[christiansiegel]

Currently the Setup Page does not indicate any specific prerequisites for installing from source - would this be a new issue?

Definetely an overlap, but I'd create a new one for now 😉

[janbrohl]

For the /tmp problem, the tempfile module should help.

[christiansiegel]

Closing. I don't think this is anything we'll focus on any time soon.