changed: packaging for publishing

[tcztzy]

…d relative.

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Description

Packaging open-webui as a Python package with minimum modification. It is not rye-only, any package support PEP 517 can build and package at the root of this project.

I also noticed that openwebui is currently not token in pypi.org, maybe it is a better choice?

after packaging and publishing to pypi, we can declare namespace package as plugin system, then langchain agent support could be easily implemented.

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Changelog Entry

Added

• Python packaging

Changed

• Use file relative (relative path to backend/config.py) instead of pwd relative path in backend/config.py, so it can start backend at the root directory of this project.

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Additional Information

• now we can produce the wheel file and sdist for publishing

$ rye build   # file will place at dist/
$ rye publish  # after you config pypi account, you can upload the backend file to Pypi.org

• backend/requirements.txt, backend/dev.sh, backend/start.sh and backend/start_windows.bat now can be removed, but weather delete them or not is depend on you.

[tcztzy]

related to #1885

[tjbck]

@tcztzy Are you on our discord server? I'd prefer to setup a high bandwidth communication channel to configure this.

[tcztzy]

@tcztzy Are you on our discord server? I'd prefer to setup a high bandwidth communication channel to configure this.

OK, now I login in discord as tcztzy

[tcztzy]

Now I realize following features:

1. pip install open-webui && open-webui serve
2. Add a ci.yml github workflow, every time main branch has pull event, it will release to pypi.org.

[mak448a]

You may want to claim both open-webui and openwebui just in case someone decides to post malware to pypi.

[tjbck]

I'll merge this for now, Thanks!