Top "Packaging" questions

Packaging is a configuration management process involved with capturing the knowledge needed to install or uninstall software on a target system.

setuptools vs. distutils: why is distutils still a thing?

Python has a confusing history of tools that can be used to package and describe projects: these include distutils in …

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Tarballing without Git metadata

My source tree contains several directories which are using Git source control, and I need to tarball the whole tree …

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Eclipse - How to "Change package declaration to ...." across an entire project

I've just imported a large amount of source code into Eclipse and basically the package name is no longer valid (…

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Maven Jar Builder: Could not find or load main class

I have been trying for several days now to create an executable jar file for my muli-module maven project. However, …

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How to create static binary which runs on every distro?

Some linux apps like supertuxkart or regnum online have static binaries, which after downloading just work without needing to install …

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Including a directory using Pyinstaller

All of the documentation for Pyinstaller talks about including individual files. Is it possible to include a directory, or should …

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Is there a standard way to create Debian packages for distributing Python programs?

There is a ton of information on how to do this, but since "there is more than one way to …

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What is the use case for `pip install -e`

When I need to work on one of my pet projects, I simply clone the repository as usual (git clone &…

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Using an extra python package index url with setup.py

Is there a way to use an extra python package index (ala pip --extra-index-url pypi.example.org mypackage) with setup.…

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How set image icon to JButton

I'm not very good in creating Swing application. So I have question how to set icon to JButton. My project …

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