Install from source

[Forza-tng]

Hi,
Is there a way to install Pinnwand from sources rather than via pip? I'd like to be able to customise the html and css of my installation.

Thanks :)

[supakeen]

Sure, it should be; download the source tarball from pypi (or github on the releases)-page and then a pip install . in that directory.

[Forza-tng]

Thanks. This works. It's there a way to make it without pip? I am considering packaging Pinnwand on Alpine and we want to keep dependencies minimal.

The preferred way to install a python package is through python setup.py or via gpep517

Some examples are
https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/forza/aports/-/blob/master/testing/yamkix/APKBUILD

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/forza/aports/-/blob/master/testing/sshuttle/APKBUILD

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/forza/aports/-/blob/master/testing/sqlmap/APKBUILD

[supakeen]

I think everything you'd need should be in the pyproject.toml but I readily admit I'm not the best at pep517. Let me direct a friendly Alpine developer into this issue to see what they think!

[Forza-tng]

I tried to make an ebuild for Gentoo today, but ran out of steam when I realised i needed to make ebuilds for some of the dependencies as well :/...

So to solve my immediate issue with maintaining an up-to-date Pinnwand, I did a shell script that can create and update a dedicated pinnwand venv from github.

It's available at https://git.tnonline.net/Forza/misc/src/branch/main/pinnwand if anyone is interested.

[supakeen]

Which dependencies are missing in Gentoo?

[Forza-tng]

Which dependencies are missing in Gentoo?

Looking in https://github.com/supakeen/pinnwand/blob/master/pyproject.toml we have the following missing dependencies.

From dependencies:

• pygments-better-html
• token-bucket
• Possibly sqlalchemy-utc (dev-python/sqlalchemy exists)

From project.optional-dependencies:

• pre-commit
• pytest-playwright
• pytest-html

The pdm-pep517 should be supported by Gentoo, though i haven't been able to fully test building Pinnwand due to missing deps.
https://projects.gentoo.org/python/guide/

[supakeen]

Right, you don't need the optional dependencies unless you want to run the full test suite(s) in your packaging pipeline. Generally you can get away with just an import-test (at least that's what's allowed on Fedora).

1. token-bucket, would need actual packaging but it's quite straightforward (I maintain the package in Fedora).
2. sqlalchemy-utc is a very recent addition, if this causes packagers woes (cc @NeilHanlon) then I can probably vendor it, as it's super small.
3. pygments-better-html is also small enough to vendor but I don't want to take away the credits for the solution from @Kwpolska :)

As for pdm, I'm as always dissatisfied with the state of package management in Python so I'll gladly take guidance to just switch to setuptools's build system.