I'm getting ready to announce/release a new project I've been working
on over the past week or so called "buildutils". It's a set of
extensions to distutils that are oriented toward the build process.
For example, there are commands for generating MD5/SHA-1 checksum
files for distributables, running py.test based unit tests, pushing
doc/distributables to another site via ssh/scp, etc. My goal is to
remove make from my python development process.
The package consists almost entirely …
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commands; there's very little additional apparatus. It uses
setuptools, taking advantage of its dependency resolution features to
install command dependencies when commands are executed, which lets
us put all commands in the box but not require dependencies until
commands are actually used.
Everything is still a little rough but there's more information here:
http://buildutils.lesscode.org/
I was wondering if there would be any interest in directing mailing
list discussion to the distutils-sig mailing list. Build commands may
not be part of the SIG's charter but I figure most of the discussion
will be relevant. The expertise of the members of this list would be
a huge help.
Perhaps I can try to point command development related discussion
here while pushing support and usage related discussion to a
different list?
I apologize if I'm being dense. I'm not familiar with SIG process but
would like to involve as much of the community as possible.
Thanks,
Ryan Tomayko
rtomayko(a)gmail.com
http://naeblis.cx/rtomayko/
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I notice there is an option for the index URL. But it doesn't look like
a multi-option, i.e., you can't give several URLs, to be checked in
turn. That would be useful. It'd also be nice if you could configure
this; for instance, there's several libraries I'm using that haven't had
proper releases yet, so they aren't in PyPI. If I could tell someone to
just add a particular line to ~/.setup.cfg or somesuch, then that would
make it easier. Maybe that's already possible? But that'd be …
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if that disabled the use of PyPI.
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Ian Bicking / ianb(a)colorstudy.com / http://blog.ianbicking.org
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