seano-cli 2.1.0

The seano command-line interface

Seano

Seano (a sea of notes) is a primitive, lightweight database that automatically associates records with the Git tags where the records where first created.

Records in a Seano database are Json objects, which are stored on disk as distinct YAML files to improve human-readability. The primary key of the records is an arbitrary string, which is encoded into the filename of the YAML file, and is colloquially referred to as the "note ID". Note IDs are random hex strings by default, but under the hood, they can be pretty much any filesystem-safe string.

Seano is heavily inspired by reno, written by Doug Hellmann at OpenStack, and bears a number of similarities to it. The main difference is that Seano is designed more for general-purpose (though, still lightweight) storage, and concomitantly, is engineered to more easily coexist with third party data formatters.

Testing Locally

Starting from scratch, this is how to set up local unit testing:

# Create and enter a virtual environment:
virtualenv .venv
. .venv/bin/activate

# Install Seano in the virtual environment in "editable mode"
pip install -e .

# Install extra dependencies needed by the unit tests:
pip install -r ci_utest_requirements.txt

Then, going forward, you can run unit tests like this:

pytest

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