Turn img2braille into a package

[GideonBear]

This will simplify the installation process to python3 -m pip install img2braille
The img2braille name is free on PyPI

Are you okay with me submitting some pull requests for this project? (e.g. making it a package, adding tests, enforcing PEP8, making a main function, using built-in argparse features instead of manual or statements, maybe more)

[TheFel0x]

Of course, I'm very glad about pull requests.
Also I apologize for taking this long to reply.

[TheFel0x]

Since the img2braille pip package doesn't exist yet I should probably reopen this.
I haven't published a package using pip before so unfortunately I don't know the process yet. I will look into it however.

[GideonBear]

I haven't published a package using pip before so unfortunately I don't know the process yet.

@TheFel0x I built and published packages before, if you want I can publish it for you / teach you how to do it.

[TheFel0x]

if you want I can publish it for you / teach you how to do it.
@GideonBear It would be great if you could teach me how to do so!

[GideonBear]

It would be great if you could teach me how to do so!

https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/flow/
First you need to make a PyPI account.
Then for each version you want to release:
Tag a version in git (git tag v0.0.1), I've set it up so it'll autodetect the version from git.
Then run these commands:

rm -r venv dist *.egg-info   # Cleanup
python3 -m venv venv   # Create venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Activate venv
pip install -U pip setuptools wheel   # Update venv
pip install -U build twine   # Install packages needed to build and upload
python -m build   # Build sdist and wheel
twine upload dist/*   # Upload to PyPI (enter username and password)
rm -r venv dist *.egg-info   # cleanup

I have lots of aliases, so for me it's just buildpub:

alias buildcleanup='rm -r venv dist *.egg-info'
alias buildpub='buildcleanup ; mkv && pip install -U build twine && python -m build && twine upload dist/* && buildcleanup'
function mkv {
    $python -m venv venv
    av
    pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
    # More stuff to automatically install requirements files
}
alias av='source venv/bin/activate'
alias dv='deactivate'
alias rv='rm -r venv'

Then people can install it using python3 -m pip install img2braille and run it using img2braille.

I'm going to test this on https://test.pypi.org first, to make sure the whole process works.