Need to package the application as an installable arch linux package

[adithyasunil04]

I have struggled to find an effective way to package maneki application as an installable arch linux package, the program is written fully in python. The primary executable script is called main.py and this script sources files such as pngs and scripts to work from src directory, could any one suggest me a suitable method?

If you may need to reorganize the directory tree of this repo, instead of sending PR to master branch, pls do send PR to a test branch for building arch programs that i shall create shortly

[rajatkriplani]

Did you try makepkg -si in the root directory where PKGBUILD is present?

[rajatkriplani]

package maneki application as an installable arch linux package as follows:

1. Organize application follow python standards as follow:

maneki/
├── maneki/
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── main.py
│   ├── src/ (UI, PNG, scripts)
├── setup.py
├── PKGBUILD
└── README.md

2. Modify code for resource access by using pkg_resourcesf or importlib.resources to access bundled files:

ui_path = pkg_resources.resource_filename('maneki', 'src/ui/welcomeScreen.ui')

3. setup.py for packaging:

setup(
    name='maneki',
    packages=find_packages(),
    include_package_data=True,
    entry_points={'gui_scripts': ['maneki = maneki.main:main']},
)

4. MANIFEST.in

recursive-include maneki/src *

5. PKGBUILD

depends=('python' 'python-pyqt5')
build() { python setup.py build; }
package() { python setup.py install --root="$pkgdir/"; }

6. Building and testing package:

• source tarball: python setup.py sdist
• build package: makepkg
• install: sudo pacman -U maneki-*.pkg.tar.zst
• Adjust paths in code to use installed locations.
• testing in a virtual environment to avoid conflicts.