add development guide (#1739)

.env.example

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+PYPI_TOKEN=your-pypi-token

.gitignore

@@ -19,4 +19,5 @@ pip_overrides.json
 check2.sh
 /venv/
 build
-*.egg-info
+*.egg-info
+.env

CONTRIBUTING.md

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+## Testing Changes
+
+1. Activate the ComfyUI environment.
+
+2. Build package locally after making changes.
+
+```bash
+# from inside the ComfyUI-Manager directory, with the ComfyUI environment activated
+python -m build
+```
+
+3. Install the package locally in the ComfyUI environment.
+
+```bash
+# Uninstall existing package
+pip uninstall comfyui-manager
+
+# Install the locale package
+pip install dist/comfyui-manager-*.whl
+```
+
+4. Start ComfyUI.
+
+```bash
+# after navigating to the ComfyUI directory
+python main.py
+```
+
+## Manually Publish Test Version to PyPi
+
+1. Set the `PYPI_TOKEN` environment variable in env file.
+
+2. If manually publishing, you likely want to use a release candidate version, so set the version in [pyproject.toml](pyproject.toml) to something like `0.0.1rc1`.
+
+3. Build the package.
+
+```bash
+python -m build
+```
+
+4. Upload the package to PyPi.
+
+```bash
+python -m twine upload dist/* --username __token__ --password $PYPI_TOKEN
+```
+
+5. View at https://pypi.org/project/comfyui-manager/

pyproject.toml

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 [project]
 name = "comfyui-manager"
 license = { text = "GPL-3.0-only" }
-version = "4.0"
+version = "4.0.0-beta.1"
 requires-python = ">= 3.9"
 description = "ComfyUI-Manager provides features to install and manage custom nodes for ComfyUI, as well as various functionalities to assist with ComfyUI."
 readme = "README.md"