Suppose you create a custom Kedro starter for you ...
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Matthias Roels
05/08/2024, 4:15 PMSuppose you create a custom Kedro starter for you team to quickstart any new project you will work on. What would then be a good process to “push” changes you make to the starter to consumers of that starter? If it’s only Python code, you could create a package out of it. But what if the starter also contains configuration?
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Deepyaman Datta
05/08/2024, 4:50 PMI don't think there's a good way, beyond documenting how to upgrade.
Deepyaman Datta
05/08/2024, 4:51 PMThe reality is, there are no guidelines on how one may modify project generated by Kedro new, and nothing to tie changes back to a root.
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Nok Lam Chan
05/09/2024, 9:22 AMAre you talking about upgrading an existing project?
Nok Lam Chan
05/09/2024, 9:24 AMFor Cookiecutter specifically, it solves the day 0 problem. libraries like
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Nok Lam Chan
05/09/2024, 9:25 AMPushing code to existing code is tricky - they are possible for certain limited scope and well known codebase. (like python2 to python3), once you have
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Matthias Roels
05/09/2024, 9:43 AMI’m indeed talking about updating an existing project. Not solving the day 0 problem (that’s usually the easy part).
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Nok Lam Chan
05/09/2024, 9:45 AMAre the consumer suppose to change that configuration? Otherwise it's perfectly fine to ship configuration in a python package.
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Matthias Roels
05/09/2024, 5:07 PMThey are free to change config so shipping a Python package is not an option I’m afraid. But
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Nok Lam Chan
05/09/2024, 6:06 PMUnfortunately we haven't evaluated it properly
Nok Lam Chan
05/09/2024, 6:06 PMhttps://github.com/projen/projen is another one I have heard of, again I haven't played with it
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