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maybe fix packaging issues
author Jeff Hammel <k0scist@gmail.com>
date Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:56:36 -0800
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1 = MakeItSo! TODO =
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3 Bugs:
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4
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5 - Perhaps a `MANIFEST.in` should be used in order to package?
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6 https://docs.python.org/2/distutils/sourcedist.html
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8 Planned features:
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10 - Have a filepath or URL as the basic thing that gets "filled". (These
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11 should be files, directories, entry_points, or URLs)
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13 - There'd be hooks, so you could define a Python file in the control
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14 config, and have stuff like:
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16 def wrap(filename, rendered_content, vars)
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17 def conflict(filename, prev_content, new_content, vars) # Could do prepend here, for instance
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18 def some_helper_func()
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20 - An option to display this at the end of the run:
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22 makeitso -t my/template/ var1=value var2=value
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24 Then you can easily rerun the command
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26 - ability to specify delimeters (both for file interpolation and
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27 filename interpolation); normally, i'd want '${' + '}', but this
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28 works poor with, say, bash scripts, and not having this makes it
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29 difficult to write templates that make other templates
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30 ``(This is done in tempita; can we use it?)``
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32 - should be able to contain as much information as possible in a
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33 single file. Since most often I want to give someone (possibly
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34 myself) a single file to run, it would be nice to have some local
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35 maximum of the product of flexibility and legibility
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37 - the ability to create a self-executing script from a file for easy
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38 portability
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40 - ability to find the variables used in templates; I find this
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41 absolutely critical. In PasteScript, this isn't there (unless you
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42 use cheetah) and it is problematic if you want to deal with
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43 templates programmatically. If you do allow things, like
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44 single-file templates, then this becomes mandatory. This is to say,
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45 amongst other things, there should be a command-line option that
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46 will list the template variables.
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48 - ability to import templates:
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49 ability to make existing directory structures or files into
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50 templates
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52 - ability to make a python package from a python file
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54 - ability to have a pre-hook and pluggable setup; e.g. setup a repo
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56 - ability to use defaults (--use-defaults) when they are specified
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58 - ability to save variables used in a run into a file:
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60 makeitso --save-variables=myvars.txt mytemplate
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62 - ability to have executing script files (for packaged tests or via a shebang)
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64 - a dotfile for metadata (e.g. ~/.makeitso)
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66 - hooks for things to do after creation (licensing, uploading
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67 somewhere, creating a repository, etc)
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69 - not having to name template files 'foo_tmpl'; it is better not to
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70 munge the file extension at all and have other mechanisms for
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71 denoting files to be interpolated
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73 - ability to use python in interpolation
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75 - backwards compatability with pastescript templates
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77 - a web interface (or a few)
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79 - Like pastescript currently does, the ability to apply templates
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80 sequentially.
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82 Directories:
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84 - a file like makeitso.ini (in that directory) can control stuff
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86 Nice-to-haves:
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88 - ability to munge files (e.g. combining setup.py from several
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89 packages) [HARD]
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91 - ability to push changes from a downstream instance to a template [HARD]
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93 - It would also be nice (but not required) to be able to control how
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94 things get put together. That is, for a setup.py or a README, what
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95 do you do? For the latter, you probably mostly want append. For
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96 the former you want to do various things : e.g. add dependencies,
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97 add entry points, etc. So we should figure out a way to write a
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98 template like that and have each template applied e.g. increment
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99 dependencies. So the latter are like variables.
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101 - ability to output to a POST request to a URL
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103 Tempita:
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105 - Parsing variables out of tempita should be workable. Even if a
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106 couple are missed, you could possibly put some in config.ini and
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107 have the rest detected (so you don't worry about forgetting new variables)