beb 0.1.0

Build Blender extension archives from JSON or YAML manifests

Blender Extension Builder

Reusable tools for building Blender extension packages from a project manifest.

Source repository: https://github.com/minimalefforttech/beb

Features

• Build Blender extension zip archives from manifest.json
• Load manifest.yaml and manifest.yml as alternate formats when PyYAML is available
• Download and cache dependency wheels per target platform
• Embed explicit custom wheels without forcing the wheel version to match the manifest version
• Generate configurable HTML docs from Markdown when Markdown is available
• Create deploy bundles with extension archives and generated documentation
• Use the package from Python or through the beb CLI

Installation

pip install beb

PyYAML and Markdown are included as standard dependencies, but the package degrades gracefully if either feature dependency is unavailable in a target environment.

The published package name is beb and the top-level Python import package is also beb.

Quick Start

beb validate
beb build
beb install --install-dir ./build/install
beb build --deploy

Project Layout

• beb: importable package
• cli: small repository helper commands
• examples: example manifests for common workflows
• docs: user and developer guides
• tests: automated coverage for the manifest, wheels, builder, and docs pipeline

Documentation

• User guide: docs/user_guide.md
• Developer guide: docs/developer_guide.md

Releases

GitHub Actions builds wheels and source distributions on every push and publishes tagged releases to PyPI.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE.