For this week we were tasked with finalizing our Link Checker program, as always you can find mine here
Basically we had to package our program and host it on a dedicated package website, for my Python program I chose: https://pypi.org/
What was the process for creating a release? Be detailed so that other developers could read your blog and get some idea how to do the same.
The process was generally easy and PyPi had some great documentation on how to package and host your program, mostly I had to set up 1 file (Which I just copied and pasted from their tutorial then changed a bit of it) and then run a few commands to get it hosted.
I had to change A LOT of my programs file structure in order to host the package cleanly and to get it running globally from the command line, I found out that I can actually use something called command entries to achieve this though.
The biggest time waster was having to restructure my code and order them in files, but honestly this was probably for the better anyways since it's a lot easier to work with now.
My user testing was pretty smooth but I also realized that I had to change my documentation to include that you could download it on PyPi from this point forward, So now I have two different installation instructions. One of the contribution page. Incase other programmers wan't to get started and help out, and one in the Readme.MD so the average person can just install it from PyPi and use the tool directly.
I chose someone that had no programming experience, which obviously they had trouble installing the program (using git clone and stuff) But actually running the program and using the commands was very easy for them to do so. I did a second run with the updated readme.md (The one that says to download it from PyPi) and that went a lot smoother since there was no other tools needed to install the program.
You can download the release of my Link Check project at:
Link Check
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