Welcome to Seed’s documentation!

Seed is an experiment in making releasing PyPi packages trivially easy. For example, the release command will:

  • Increment the version number in __init__.py
  • Update CHANGES.txt with commit summaries & authors
  • Tag the release
  • Commit the above changes
  • Register/upload your package to PyPi

I am not sure if a need for this exists, but my hope is that it will lower the time & effort needed to create and release Python packages.

Installation

pip install seed

Getting started

If you need an entirely fresh package then you can do this:

seed create

You can also pass a few options to the create command. See the help for details:

seed help create

If you already have a package you can release it using:

seed release

Again, options are documented here:

seed help release

Notes on releasing: The release process makes a bunch of assumptions about your project. If you created your project using the create command, then you are probably fine, but you may need to do a little hacking otherwise.

Source

Is on GitHub.

Other notes & about the author

The structure of Seed is heavily based on that of pip. It is still a bit rough around the edges, but the basic stuff is there.

I find myself managing a lot of packages as I always have a number of Django projects on the go and sharing reusable code is always a plus. I also use Heroku a lot, but Heroku doesn’t play nicely when installing dependencies via external URLs, hence my desire to release more packages to PyPi rather than just installing them right out of GutHub.

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