pbr - Python Build Reasonableness¶
A library for managing setuptools packaging needs in a consistent manner.
pbr reads and then filters the setup.cfg data through a setup hook to fill in default values and provide more sensible behaviors, and then feeds the results in as the arguments to a call to setup.py - so the heavy lifting of handling python packaging needs is still being done by setuptools.
Note that we don’t support the easy_install aspects of setuptools: while we depend on setup_requires, for any install_requires we recommend that they be installed prior to running setup.py install - either by hand, or by using an install tool such as pip.
PBR can and does do a bunch of things for you:
- Version: Manage version number based on git revisions and tags
- AUTHORS: Generate AUTHORS file from git log
- ChangeLog: Generate ChangeLog from git log
- Manifest: Generate a sensible manifest from git files and some standard files
- Sphinx Autodoc: Generate autodoc stub files for your whole module
- Requirements: Store your dependencies in a pip requirements file
- long_description: Use your README file as a long_description
- Smart find_packages: Smartly find packages under your root package
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