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*Issues with deploying*

I am running
```prefect deployment build my_flow.py:flow_name -q que1 --tag LIN --name proj_name --skip-upload --pool "default-agent-pool"```
and I get en error:
`encountered an exception: ModuleNotFoundError("No module named 'my_project_source")`

I tried to add everywhere where that are imports in the project, from other parts of the project
```from pathlib import Path
import sys
import os

path = Path(os.path.dirname(__file__))
sys.path.append(path)
sys.path.append(path.parent)```
but this did not help

do I have to create a python package from the code in order to deploy it?
if there is a way to deploy a project without turning it to a python package, what is it ?


I do not see in <https://docs.prefect.io/latest/concepts/deployments/>
information on `prefect deployment build` was this deprecated ?

In the past it use to work without having to create a python package from a project and pip install it

do we now just manually create a deployment yaml file ?

It looks like need to role back prefect to version 2.11.5 for it to work

Hi <@U02GMEZU18B>
any thoughts how I can both keep recent version of prefect and be able to deploy ?
I could not find relevant documentation

<https://github.com/PrefectHQ/prefect/issues/10763>

Are we no longer suppose to deploy using the `prefect deployment build`  and use
```if __name__ == "__main__":
    my_flow.serve(...)```
instead ?

if so, do we need to remove the `.serve` after deploying, if we want to make changes and run code like any other python code?

deployments can be created via prefect deployment build, prefect deploy, or .serve

although prefect deployment build aka block based deployments will soon be deprecated (meaning they will still be supported, but will emit a warning that it will be removed in a future release), it still works if you’re trying to do block based deployments by running an agent (ie an old version of a worker)

if you just want to run a process as a deployment without extra fuss or dynamic infra allocation, .serve is the simplest way 

the modern recommendation for deployments with dynamic infra allocation is to run a worker and use prefect deploy

i am ooo this week and next, so for follow ups id suggest posting in <#CL09KU1K7|> (otherwise ill come back to this thread later when im back)