A small utility to make alias distributions on PyPI.
It will create an “empty” package with a different name (the “alias”) that depends on the package in your current working directory.
Free software: BSD 2-Clause License
Installation
pip install pypi-alias
You can also install the in-development version with:
pip install https://github.com/ionelmc/pypi-alias/archive/master.zip
Usage
You can use pypi-alias with a distribution file (a .whl file or a sdist) or with a path, as long as it has a pyproject.toml with build configuration in it.
Example, if say, you have a foobar package, and you want to make an alias with name python-foobar, assuming your in the checkout path:
pypi-alias python-foobar
You can specify a version:
pypi-alias python-foobar --alias-version=1.0
You can use a dist file:
pypi-alias python-foobar --alias-version=1.0 dist/foobar-1.2.3.tar.gz
And you can also add some build options for the resulting alias package (example: only build sdist in a different path):
pypi-alias python-foobar --alias-version=1.0 dist/foobar-1.2.3.tar.gz -- --dist --outdir=aliased-dist
The resulting files are in dist\, assuming you haven’t used --outdir, you can upload them with twine:
twine upload dist\python-foobar*
Development
To run all the tests run:
tox
Note, to combine the coverage data from all the tox environments run:
Windows |
set PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox |
|---|---|
Other |
PYTEST_ADDOPTS=--cov-append tox |
Changelog
2.0.0 (2025-07-13)
Now build/pkginfo are used to get package metadata. This means pyproject.toml projects are supported.
Dropped support for Python 3.8 or older.
1.0.0 (2021-04-08)
Added support for Python 3. Contributed by Emil Stenström in #5.
Dropped support for Python 2.
Switched to argparse and added the --version and --dirty arguments.
Added some light CI/testing.
0.2.0 (2015-06-18)
Fix regression in __main__.
0.1.0 (2015-06-18)
First release on PyPI.
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
Release files for pypi-alias 2.0.0
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