Please make it installable through pip

[clonedagain]

Installing with the setup is rather easy, but it would be easier still if we could get ponysay through PIP. Is it something you would consider?

[JotaRandom]

There is a long long standing bug about port the installation to a proper python one (to suport python virtual env).

this is related but in this case request specificaly PIP(squeak ;p ).

I will let it open since they aproach the same issue but from different angles... aaand because i can find the intallation request.

(I'm artist and documenter not programer so any patch is welcome).

[JotaRandom]

The bug is #94 talking about the build system.

still a work in progress since /setup.py was a "temporal" until we get the definitive, this bug talk specificaly to port to PIP intead of a more options like 94 so I will let it open.

[thorsummoner]

Because I feel frustrated and want to say soemthing but know there is nothing valuable I can say, here are the error messages python yields when trying to install this:

$ python2 -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git
Collecting git+https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git
  Cloning https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git to /tmp/pip-KA9XmJ-build
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/tmp/pip-KA9XmJ-build/setup.py", line 1202
        print('\n\033[1mUSAGE:\033[21m', end='')
                                            ^
    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    
    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-KA9XmJ-build/

"Oh its python 3 only, nothing wrong with that."

$ python3 -m pip install --user git+https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git
Collecting git+https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git
  Cloning https://github.com/erkin/ponysay.git to /tmp/pip-oywq__6i-build
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    setup.py: fatal: Unrecognized option --egg-base. Use --help or consult the manual.
    
    ----------------------------------------

"Oh setup bug, Maybe I can offer a patch to fix it. looks at setup.py, comes here"

I'm excited for this project though, sincerely. If it helps, here is the python packaging and distribution documentation I would recommend reading:

https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/distributing-packages/

There is also an example repository, https://github.com/pypa/sampleproject/

I also found it unclear how to use packaged data files, this may help: https://stackoverflow.com/a/5601839

[loxaxs]

#248 #264 #273