I’ve only been in the python community for about a year, so I’m still new, but I really do love coding in python. Anyway, I decided to open source a library (‘WeatherAlerts’) I started writing a few weeks ago. I’ll post about it at some point in the future…. At first it was just a code repo on github, but after a bit of time working with it I wanted to package it and put it on pypi so it could be installed via easy_install or pip. With the state of change that python is in right now figuring out how to write the installer, have it support both python 2 and python 3 and get the package available on pypi wasn’t trivial. But now that it’s behind me, I have a much better understanding of python package management.
I had a simple test script that I was manually running every few commits and before pushing any changes out to the public repo. It worked, but being a Linux Systems Engineer though, this wasn’t going to stay that way long term. A lot of what I do in my day job is systems automation. Deploy servers, mange changes to large clusters, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery at the system level… So while my simple little python project was perfectly fine with being a manual build and deploy process, I couldn’t stand it.
So, I searched out a pythonic way to automate these tasks.
Three other photographers and myself got together today for a photo walk downtown, a chance to catch up with each other and take a photo or two in the process. This photo was one of results of the random meandering.
