Re: [IBMiOSS] Python, ACS, Open Source and MKDocs ** SOLVED **

Thanks, but no thanks, Mark.  :)  I'm not going to even consider uninstalling.  I have it working, and that's fine for now.  And after serious meditation and extreme Google-foo, I was able to find this:

   https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0345/

All y'all can feast your eyes on that if you wanna know what the METADATA file contains.  Of course, that's Metadata version 1.2; our files are Metadata 2.0, which should have been defined by PEP 426, but that was withdrawn in favor of PEP 566, except in neither can I find the Python version extension for Requires-Dist.

And that's as far as I'm going to take it.  I now know more about Python installation than I ever planned to know.


On 12/21/2020 5:48 PM, Mark Waterbury wrote:

  Joe,
IIRC, when you first started this thread, you discovered that you were "accidentally" using Python 2.7, and an older version, from 5733-OPS ...
Perhaps that installed some stuff, before failing, so now, it's all "hosed up"?
You might need to un-install all that stuff and then try again?
Hope that helps,
Mark S. Waterbury

     On Monday, December 21, 2020, 6:32:53 PM EST, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
    And FYI, the METADATA for livereload on Ubuntu has the conditioning:

Requires-Dist: six
Requires-Dist: tornado (<6) ; python_version == "2.7"
Requires-Dist: tornado ; python_version > "2.7"

Maybe the generation on the IBM i somehow lopped off everything after
and including the semicolon.


On 12/21/2020 5:28 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

Yeah, that makes sense, Kevin.  The METADATA generation should have
been conditioned.

On 12/21/2020 5:25 PM, Kevin Adler wrote:

     Glad you got it figured out. My guess is that setuptools should have
     inserted one or another line depending on the version of python
you're
     installing with not both.
          eg. pip2 install livereload -> Requires-Dist: tornado (<6),
pip3 install
     livereload -> Requires-Dist: tornado
          Now that you nailed down the culprit, I can do some further
digging.