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Helpers for Python package hosting at GitHub

Project description

Github features Git repository hosting, a download page for your Git tags (or any archive), a basic issue tracker, a wiki and static page hosting (gh-pages).

Github-tools defines a PasteScript template to create the basic layout, some paver tasks (github.tools.task.*) to host your package documentation on gh-pages and the pavement.py script to get started.

Requirements

This extension and its dependencies require:

  • a GitHub user account and,

  • Git (tested with 1.6.2.4),

  • Python 2.5+.

It currently has only been tested on Ubuntu 8.04 (and Git built from source) with Python 2.5 and Mac OS X 10.6 with python 2.6.

For Windows, It should work as long as GitPython does. However since it simply start git subprocesses to work, it might be difficult to use with Git installers like msysgit or gitextensions.

Installation

The easiest way to get github-tools is if you have setuptools / distribute installed:

easy_install github-tools[template]

The current development version can be found at http://github.com/dinoboff/github-tools/tarball/master.

Usage

Package layout

If you are starting from scratch, create the basic layout with paster:

paster create -t gh_package <project name>

The project name will be used for pypi and for your Github repository (http://github.com/<user>/<project name>).

To finish your development environment setup, create a virtual environment and deploy your package in development mode:

cd <project name>
python bootstrap.py --no-site-packages

The basic package comes with a virtualenv boostrap script to create an isolated Python environments. To activate this environment in your shell, run:

source ./virtual-env/bin/activate
# or .\virtual-env\Scripts\activate.bat on windows

Finally:

paver generate_setup minilib develop

Paver add a setup.py file to your package and a portable paver library (required by setup.py), and deploy your application in development mode; The “src” folder which contains your package is added to the Python path.

setup.py does not contain much. All setup() parameters are set in pavement.py. All the distutils and setuptools task are available with paver and it is very easy to extends or add your own commands (see paver documentation for more details).

You are ready to write your package and its documentation (in docs/). You should probably start tracking your project now:

git init
git add .
git commit -m "initial import"

Github project creation

When you are ready to share your work, you will need to create a repository at GitHub and push your local repository. Paver can do it for you. Paver will need your GitHub user name and token to create the repository. You can set them with the following command:

git config --global github.user <user>
git config --global github.token <token>

You can find your token on your Github account page.

Then, to create the repository and upload your project:

paver gh_register

Documentation hosting

Once the project is created, you can create your gh-pages branch and upload it to GitHub:

paver gh_pages_create gh_pages_build

Paver will create a submodule of your project at docs/_build/html, create a gh-pages root branch and push the branch to your project. It then build the html doc. To clean the html build folder, it update the submodule (you will lose changes not committed and pushed), remove every files and directory (except .git/) and rebuild the documentation.

When your documentation can be published, simply push your gh-pages submodule to GitHub:

paver gh_pages_build gh_pages_update -m "update docs with..."

Your documentation should be available at http://<user name>.github.com/<project name>.

You might also want to update the submodule reference (a submodule point to specific commit on a remote repository, not to the HEAD of a specific branch):

git add docs/_build/html
git commit -m "update gh-pages submodule"

Help and development

If you’d like to help out, you can fork the project at http://github.com/dinoboff/github-tools/ and report any bugs at http://github.com/dinoboff/github-tools/issues.

Changes

0.2rc1 (April 24, 2010)

  • Change GitPython requirement. Requires version 1.6 specifically (version 0.3 will track GitPython 2.x).

  • The gh_pages_clean task correctly checkout the gh-pages branch in the gh-pages submodule.

0.2b3 (January 30, 2010)

  • Installation of Template dependencies is now optional.

0.2b2 (January 11, 2010)

  • Fix bug with gh_package template when github.user or github.token git config values are not set.

  • Disable Sphinx extension and add a .nojekyll file to allow the use of folder starting with “_”.

0.2b1 (August 26, 2009)

  • New Layout, without a src/ folder to hold package(s) or docs/source to hold the ReST documentation - Based on Paver-templates’ main template.

0.1.7 (July 18, 2009)

  • Fixed bug in gh_register, failing to set default gh_pages options.

0.1.6 (July 9, 2009)

  • Fixed with github-tools’ template. Failed when git’s user.name and user.email config variables were not set

  • Removed distribution info from package’s __init__.py file, so that pavement.py doesn’t need to the package to get them. Github-tools uses pkginfo to get these info when it needs them.

0.1.4 (July 5, 2009)

  • Added required files to MANIFEST.in; the gh_package template was missing from the distribution.

0.1.3 (Jun 17, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug with github-tools’ pavement.py.

0.1.2 (Jun 14, 2009)

  • Fixed a bug in in the doc/source/conf.py created with github-tools’ paste template.

0.1.0 (Jun 12, 2009):

  • Initial release.

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