FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gpg': 'gpg'

[ssbarnea]

On platform where gpg executable does not exist twine failsto sign with an errorl like:

FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'gpg': 'gpg'

This happens even if gpg2 executable is present and working, use of gpg2 is quite common and twine should be able to prefer instead of the very old gpg.

Adding an alias does not solve the problem

[sigmavirus24]

There's a --sign-with option that allows you to specify gpg2. I believe gpg was selected because it's the binary that's most widely available. We could absolutely update that in a major version, but I'm not convinced it's a backwards compatible change.

[di]

Would it be reasonable to fall back on gpg2 if gpg is not found?

At any rate, we might want to raise a more meaningful error message when this happens.

[sigmavirus24]

Would it be reasonable to fall back on gpg2 if gpg is not found?

Probably

[allhailwesttexas]

I will try to fix this one as part of the PyCon AU sprints.