Easibox is a utility for making tar files, zip files and other archive files, designed to be particularly useful when making releases of open source projects.

Easibox was written to solve a problem I had when releasing open source software packages, such as my Leafwa program. The technique I was using was manually creating a directory with the required filename (such as "leafwa-0.6.1"), copying those files to be archived into the directory, and then cd'ing to that directory's parent and running tar to create the tarball. I found this process time-consuming and error-prone. So I decided there must be a better way...

My solution was this program ``easibox'' which decides what files it will put in the archive, what sort of archive files will be created, and other parameters, based on the contents of a configuration file in the project directory. The configuration file is read in by the Python interpreter; this means that it uses Python syntax (so you don't have to learn another file type) and that you can put Python program statements in it.

Easibox is written in Python and licensed under the GNU General Public License; see file COPYING (which comes with the distribution) for details.

Easibox is available on the web at: http://www.cabalamat.org/oss/easibox/intro.html