fw-gear 0.3.2

Flywheel Gear Tools

FW Gear

⚠️ BETA RELEASE - This repository is currently in beta until December 31st, 2025. General Availability (GA) release is planned for Q1 2026.

fw-gear is a python package maintained by Flywheel It provides a set of modules for facilitating Flywheel gears development.

Installation

pip install fw-gear

Documentation

The documentation for the fw-gear can be found on the Flywheel Scientific Solutions documentation site

Contributing

Building

The dependency and virtual environment manager for the gear toolkit is poetry.

poetry install

or

poetry install -E all

to install with extras.

Testing, Linting, Building doc

Linting, Testing and Documentation building are all done using pre-commit.

After installing poetry, the pre-commit command will be installed. Make sure pre-commit hooks are installed by running either poetry run pre-commit install or from within the poetry shell pre-commit install. After hooks are installed, they will automatically be run on each git commit, they can all be skipped by running git commit --no-verify or specific hooks can be skipped by setting the environmental variable, ex. SKIP=test:pre-commit:pytest git commit.

Individual hooks can also be run independently. For example, to build sphinx-doc, you can run pre-commit run publish:doc:test, or to run black on all files: pre-commit run test:flywheel-lint -a. For a list of all hooks, view the pre-commit-config.

Managing dependencies

To add new dependencies to this repo, please use poetry and to follow the below steps:

# Install my-package:
poetry add my-package
# or install my-package as part of the required packages for development (e.g. pytest):
poetry add my-package --dev
# Sync poetry.lock
poetry lock

Building and releasing

Local building

To build the project locally and verify if the build was successful, you can run

poetry build --format wheel
twine check dist/*.whl

Versioning and project information

The pyproject.toml file has replaced the usual setup.py in this repository and contains information on contributors, maintainers, project description, project URLs, and project version. In order to change any information on the project, it must be changed in the pyproject.toml file.

Documentation for this file can be found on the Poetry pyproject.toml documentation page, and information on dependency version specification syntax can be found in the Poetry dependency specification guide.