Make a package about visidata HOT 9 CLOSED

Thanks for the suggestion. I would like to keep VisiData light and hackable, so the less overhead the better. It's not a big deal, and since someone else requested this too, I probably will make a package for it (at least by v1.0). But I don't really understand, what is the advantage to making a package for it, when the script can just be copied as-is to a bin directory?

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see https://github.com/firecat53/tabview/blob/master/setup.py or https://github.com/wavexx/gtabview/blob/master/setup.py

with

scripts=['bin/tabview'],

your script will be automatically stored in a bin directory which is part of your PATH so with a setup.py it will be easier to install it and have it available from any directory.

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The main advantage, I imagine, is that you could just pip install visidata instead of

git clone https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
cd visidata
cp vd.py /usr/local/bin

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Okay, I merged a setup.py into master with v0.30. Can you test that it installs properly for you?

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You might enable Travis and have a very basic test to ensure that it installs correctly

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Thanks for making a package. Can you start publishing versions to pypi?

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Yes, I am finishing up some work on it this week, and will publish the next version on pypi very soon. Thanks for pinging me on this.

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I published v0.37 on pypi tonight.

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