Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs -- OPENSOURCE

You want VS Code for this. It won't take you very long to understand why. The only downside is that when you have to go back to RDi, you will curse the big blue god.

Now if someone would just make it so the VS Code server installed and ran on the i the way it does in WSL and Linux, we would be golden.

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenSource <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 6:39 PM
To: opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs

Oh gz. I am as old as dirt. Older maybe. And yet I still get excited by cool things. And what is today's cool thing? I can set up a complete working Python development environment using the free VS Code toolset, connect to my free Ubuntu environment on Windows, and then push my code to run on the i.

And that's a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT path than installing the Python tools in my RDi instance, developing code to port to an Ubuntu VM and walking down that path. (Which was yet a different path than my dual-boot Windows XP / Ubuntu laptop, which I only just recently decommissioned).

Now I just have to figure out what I want to pursue. I have to admit that the WSL is very slick. It's fast and simple, and it's got the sort of power tools I need as a (sometimes less than adept) administrator. I just ran ubuntu2004 in Powershell as part of a very simple process to reset my user password. Having spent so very long in the Eclipse world, I don't know if I want to retrain on VS Code, but I understand it's pretty slick.

Good thing I have nothing else to do...

On 12/17/2020 6:24 PM, Quintin Holmberg wrote:

Joe ... I do all my development in WSL. It works exceptionally well with VS Code. Here is the link I used to learn about it and get it setup ...
https://ajeet.dev/dev-environment-set-up-on-windows-to-learn-python/

I then use Git repositories to push up from WSL and then pull down to the IBMi (or my Ubuntu server that I'm also developing on).

I don't run a virtual environment on my IBMi. Mostly because I did not know much about it when I started. Now, though, I always setup a virtual environment for each project I'm working in.

-----Original Message-----
From: OpenSource <opensource-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of
Joe Pluta
Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 6:07 PM
To: opensource@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs

Okay, this is a few more moving pieces than I had planned on this evening. I'll look into it in more detail tomorrow.

Thanks, Richard. I'm sure I'll be reaching out some more. :)

I wonder if I can run this in the Ubuntu Linux that is magically available in Windows 10???

On 12/17/2020 5:43 PM, Richard Schoen wrote:

Couple of thoughts:

-I would suggest installing all the Python 3 packages. Should be safe to do so.

-As Kevin said, I would make sure /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin is in your search path and then run: python3 --version You should see something in the 3.6 ish range. I have 3.6.12.

-Possibly install the 5733OPS version of Python if not in use. GO LICPGM.

-You don't need to create a special VENV (Virtual Environment) initially.

-Follow the rest of my instructions and see what happens.

-As a side-note if you're more comfy, you can install MKDocs initially on Windows or Linux to test as well before putting on IBMi.

MKDocs is a great static site generator. I am still liking it after a few weeks with it.

Regards,
Richard Schoen
Web: http://www.richardschoen.net
Email: richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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message: 5
date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 23:33:06 +0000
from: "Kevin Adler" <kadler@xxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs

Sounds like you have found the 5733-OPS version. It's likely you need to
set your PATH. See
[1]https://ibmi-oss-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/troubleshooting/SETTING_PATH.html
?
?

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From: Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs
Date: Thu, Dec 17, 2020 5:28 PM
?
Thank you, Quintin!? I can now indeed report that my python3 version is
3.4.10!

That's step one.? Now I have to figure out what Jack is talking about.

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