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

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I lied.  After having spent so muvh time ramping up my Google-foo, I 
couldn't stop.  So here is the last piece of tyhe puzzle, it's the 
dependency specification PEP:

  https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0508/

You get to that from the Python Core Metadata Specifications:

  https://packaging.python.org/specifications/core-metadata/

That's it.  No more.


On 12/21/2020 5:56 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:
> 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 that was withdrawn in favor of PEP 566, except in neither can I find 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.