The 2nd release (v0.2.0) of `rituals` hit the Internet pipelines today, adding a 'release-prep' task and wheel support.
The `rituals` package provides PyInvoke tasks that work for any project, based on its project metadata, to automate common developer chores like 'clean', 'build', 'dist', 'test', 'check', and 'release-prep' (for the moment). The guiding principle for these tasks is to strictly separate low-level tasks for building and installing (via setup.py) from high-level convenience tasks a developer uses (via tasks.py). Invoke tasks can use Setuptools ones as building blocks, but never the other way 'round – this avoids bootstrapping head- aches during package installations using `pip`. The easiest way to get a working project based on `rituals` is the `py-generic-project` cookiecutter template. That way you have a working project skeleton within minutes that is fully equipped, with all aspects of bootstrapping, building, testing, quality checks, continuous integration, documentation, and releasing covered. Enjoy, Jürgen ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Links: * https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rituals/0.2.0 * https://github.com/jhermann/rituals#rituals * https://github.com/Springerle/py-generic-project#py-generic-project Detailed changes: * new: added 'release-prep' task * new: added --skip-root to 'check', and checking './*.py' too * new: 'dist' task automatically creates wheels if possible * chg: better handling of 'build --docs' * chg: added help for task parameters (closes #4) * chg: warn about missing Sphinx docs (when '--docs' is provided) * fix: get src package list for 'check' from 'project.packages' * fix: use 'which' to look for 'py.test' binary (closes #2) See also https://github.com/jhermann/rituals/releases/tag/v0.2.0 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-announce-list Support the Python Software Foundation: http://www.python.org/psf/donations/