[CI/CD] Add PyPi release workflow to dev branch

Apply beta "b1" version suffix for a pre-release on PyPI.

Bump version string to 0.43.1b1 for simpler upgrades from 0.43.0, which did not have a pre-release suffix.

Update install instructions to pull pre-release from PyPI instead of GitHub.

Additionally add instructions to work around the "error: externally-managed-environment" error on recent Debian and Ubuntu versions.

Signed-off-by: MichaIng <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/pypi_release.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+name: PyPI release
+
+on: workflow_dispatch
+
+permissions:
+  contents: read
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.x'
+        check-latest: true
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
+        python -m pip install --upgrade build twine
+    - name: Build package
+      run: python -m build
+    - name: Publish package
+      #run: twine upload -r testpypi -u '__token__' -p '${{ secrets.TEST_PYPI_API_TOKEN }}' dist/*
+      run: twine upload -r pypi -u '__token__' -p '${{ secrets.PYPI_TOKEN }}' dist/*

README.md

@@ -19,13 +19,13 @@ These install instructions are constantly tested via CI/CD pipeline on Debian Bu
 
     _Here the commands for APT-based Linux distributions are given._
 
-    On **32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7** systems:
+    On **32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7** systems, thanks to [piwheels](https://piwheels.org/), no development headers are required:
     ```sh
     sudo apt update
     sudo apt --no-install-recommends install ca-certificates curl python3 python3-distutils
     ```
 
-    On all other architectures additional development headers are required:
+    On **all other architectures** additional development headers are required:
     ```sh
     sudo apt update
     sudo apt --no-install-recommends install ca-certificates curl python3 python3-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev gcc libssl-dev
@@ -38,14 +38,22 @@ These install instructions are constantly tested via CI/CD pipeline on Debian Bu
     rm get-pip.py
     ```
 
+    **On recent Debian (Bookworm ant later) and Ubuntu (Lunar and later) versions**, the `libpython3.*-stdlib` package ships a file `/usr/lib/python3.*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED`, which prevents the installation of Python modules outside of `venv` environments.
+    motionEye however has a small number of dependencies with no strict version requirements and hence is very unlikely to break any Python package you might have installed via APT. To bypass this block, add `break-system-packages=true` to the `[global]` section of your `pip.conf`:
+    ```sh
+    grep -q '\[global\]' /etc/pip.conf 2> /dev/null || printf '%b' '[global]\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/pip.conf > /dev/null
+    sudo sed -i '/^\[global\]/a\break-system-packages=true' /etc/pip.conf
+    ```
+
     On **32-bit ARMv6 and ARMv7** systems, additionally configure `pip` to use pre-compiled wheels from [piwheels](https://piwheels.org/):
     ```sh
-    printf '%b' '[global]\nextra-index-url=https://www.piwheels.org/simple/\n' | sudo tee /etc/pip.conf > /dev/null
+    grep -q '\[global\]' /etc/pip.conf 2> /dev/null || printf '%b' '[global]\n' | sudo tee -a /etc/pip.conf > /dev/null
+    sudo sed -i '/^\[global\]/a\extra-index-url=https://www.piwheels.org/simple/' /etc/pip.conf
     ```
 
 3. Install and setup **motionEye**
     ```sh
-    sudo python3 -m pip install 'https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/archive/dev.tar.gz'
+    sudo python3 -m pip install --pre motioneye
     sudo motioneye_init
     ```
     _NB: `motioneye_init` currently assumes either an APT- or RPM-based distribution with `systemd` as init system. For a manual setup, config and service files can be found here: <https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/tree/dev/motioneye/extra>_
@@ -54,6 +62,6 @@ These install instructions are constantly tested via CI/CD pipeline on Debian Bu
 
 ```sh
 sudo systemctl stop motioneye
-sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --force-reinstall --no-deps 'https://github.com/motioneye-project/motioneye/archive/dev.tar.gz'
+sudo python3 -m pip install --upgrade --pre motioneye
 sudo systemctl start motioneye
 ```

motioneye/__init__.py

@@ -1 +1 @@
-VERSION = "0.43.0"
+VERSION = "0.43.1b1"