kraken-build 0.52.0

Kraken is an extensible build orchestration system.

The Kraken build system

Kraken is a build system, but not in the traditional sense. It's focus is on the orchestration of high-level tasks, such as organization of your repository configuration, code generation, invoking other build systems, etc. It is not a replacement for tools like Uv, Cargo or CMake.

Requirements

• CPython 3.10+

Getting started

Currently, Kraken's OSS components are not very well documented and do not provide a convenient way to get started. However, if you really want to try it, you can use the following steps:

Install kraken-wrapper (e.g. with Uv) to get access to the krakenw command-line tool.

Create a .kraken.py script in your project's root directory.

Run krakenw lock to install kraken-build for your project in build/.kraken/venv and generate a kraken.lock file.

Run krakenw run lint to run the linters.

Note that you can also use the kraken CLI (instead of krakenw), however this will disregard the buildscript() function, will not use the lock file and will use the version of Kraken that was installed globally.

Development

This repository uses Uv, but not currently a Uv-workspace because Kraken does not support that, yet. You may want to use a released version of krakenw instead of the live version in kraken-wrapper/ to interact with this repository. You can use Mise to install all the tools you need.

$ mise install
$ eval "$(mise activate)"
$ krakenw run fmt lint test

Release process

A release must be created by a maintainer that has write access to the develop branch.

$ ./scripts/bump.py X.Y.Z --release

The packages are published to PyPI from CI.