Well, https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/distributing/ already says
""" The section does not aim to cover best practices for Python project development as a whole. For example, it does not provide guidance or tool recommendations for version control, documentation, or testing """ It may be good to add a footnote with your "For more exhaustive examples..." comment - but it would need links, and good luck on getting any sort of agreement on what constitutes good examples :-) Paul On 9 October 2015 at 11:11, Ionel Cristian Mărieș <cont...@ionelmc.ro> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 9, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.mo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> The sample project is not intended for that purpose. It's a good >> starting point for something like that, but that's not its purpose. >> >> Paul >> >> PS I sympathise with your wish for a "do this to set up your first >> project" beginner's guide. I've wanted one of those myself for a long >> time now. But I don't believe such a thing exists, unfortunately. > > > Should we at least give some pointers as to what people should look at for a > fully fledged project? Like a lists with examples/templates covering all the > variants. Eg: > > "PyPA's sample projects only covers the packaging aspect of a project. For > more exhaustive examples take a look at cookiecutter templates, barry's > sample, ogrisel's appveyor demo, this and that etc etc" > > How about something like that? > > > > Thanks, > -- Ionel Cristian Mărieș, http://blog.ionelmc.ro _______________________________________________ Distutils-SIG maillist - Distutils-SIG@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/distutils-sig