Bob renders directory structure templates
Project description
Mister Bob the Builder creates directory skeletons.
Documentation
TODO
[medium] refactor Python API
[medium] gittip
[medium] add +var+ folder in template_sample
[medium] Check how one would implement multi-namespace python package with current mr.bob api
[low] Ability to configure what to ignore when copying templates in bobconfig (as a hook?)
[low] better format print questions output (keep order of questions -> use order information like for asking questions)
[low] document we don’t need local commands once answers are remembered (just issue another template on top of current)
[low] ability to specify variables/defaults to questions from cli
[maybe] ability to simulate rendering (dry-run)
[maybe] ability to update/patch templates
Changelog
1.0.1 (2024-02-29)
Add support for Python 3.12 [pbauer]
1.0.0 (2022-09-24)
Support for Python 3.10, drop Python 2 support. [pbauer]
0.1.2 (2015-08-19)
Add pre_ask and post_ask hooks. [Godefroid Chapelle]
Upload tarball instead of zipfile to fix unicode errors during installation [Domen Kožar]
0.1.1 (2014-03-03)
Claim Python 3.4 support [Domen Kožar]
Fix encoding errors on Python 3 during installation [Domen Kožar]
Use Jinja2 < 2.7 only for python 3.2 [Domen Kožar]
0.1 (2014-03-02)
move exceptions to bobexceptions [Jean-Philippe Camguilhem]
Use jinja2 < 2.7, since 2.7+ doesn’t support Python 3.2 [Domen Kožar]
Filename variable name substitution regex failed to compile on windows [Domen Kožar]
Do not copy .DS_Store. [Godefroid Chapelle]
Configure patterns of files to ignore through ignored_files option of mr.bob section. [Godefroid Chapelle]
Configure patterns of directories to ignore through ignored_directories option of mr.bob section. [Fotis Gimian]
Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.to_integer [Fotis Gimian]
Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.to_decimal [Fotis Gimian]
Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.validate_choices [Fotis Gimian]
Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.validate_regex [Fotis Gimian]
Added new pre-question hook mrbob.hooks.set_current_datetime [Fotis Gimian]
Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.validate_datetime [Fotis Gimian]
0.1a9 (2013-04-26)
Regex to detect variable names when rendering file names was broken when directory path contains pluses. [Godefroid Chapelle]
0.1a8 (2013-03-11)
Depend on six>=1.2.0 [Domen Kožar]
Moved all exceptions to mrbob.exceptions module [Domen Kožar]
Fix loading of zip files [Domen Kožar]
#28: Remote loading of config files [Nejc Zupan]
#30: Keep newlines of rendered template [Domen Kožar]
0.1a7 (2013-01-23)
Don’t depend on argparse in python 2.7 and higher, since it’s already in stdlib [Domen Kožar]
#22: Prevent users from specifying target directory inside template dir [Domen Kožar]
0.1a6 (2013-01-02)
Use StrictUndefined with jinja2 renderer so that any missing key is reported as an error [Domen Kožar]
If a key in a namespace was missing while rendering, no error was raised [Domen Kožar]
Added hook mrbob.hooks.show_message [Domen Kožar]
mrbob.validators.boolean renamed to mrbob.hooks.to_boolean [Domen Kožar]
Renamed validators.py to hooks.py [Domen Kožar]
Removed validators and action settings from [questions] as it is superseded by hooks [Domen Kožar]
Added pre_ask_question and post_ask_question to [questions] section [Domen Kožar]
Added pre_render, post_render and post_render_msg options [Domen Kožar]
Added [defaults] section that will override template defaults. The only difference to [variables] is that variables provide default answers [Domen Kožar]
Moved renderer parameter to [template] section [Domen Kožar]
Added [template] section that is parsed only from .mrbob.ini inside a template directory. [Domen Kožar]
Correctly evaluate boolean of quiet and verbose settings [Domen Kožar]
Added non_interactive setting that will not prompt for any input and fail if any of required questions are not answered [Domen Kožar]
Added remember_answers setting that will create .mrbob.ini file inside rendered directory with all the answers written to [variables] section [Domen Kožar]
Include changelog in documentation [Domen Kožar]
Question does no longer raise error if unknown parameter is passed from a config file. Instead those parameters are saved to question.extra that can be later inspected and validated. This is first step to have advanced question types such as question with a set of predefined answers [Domen Kožar]
Rewrite all py.test stuff to nosetests, so we have unified testing now. This also fixes flake8 segfaults on pypy [Domen Kožar]
0.1a5 (2012-12-12)
#26: Variables were not correctly parsed from config files [Domen Kožar]
0.1a4 (2012-12-11)
Fix MANIFEST.in so that template examples are also included with distribution [Domen Kožar]
Add -q/–quiet option to suppress output which isn’t strictly necessary [Sasha Hart]
Suppress the interactive-mode welcome banner if there are no questions to ask [Sasha Hart]
Don’t raise KeyError: ‘questions_order’ if [questions] is missing in an ini [Sasha Hart]
0.1a3 (2012-11-30)
#13: Read user config from ~/.mrbob (as stated in docs and inline comments). [Andreas Kaiser]
0.1a2 (2012-11-29)
#12: Fix unicode errors when using non-ASCII in questions or defaults [Domen Kožar]
Ask questions in same order they were defined in template configuration file [Domen Kožar]
0.1a1 (2012-10-19)
Initial release. [Domen Kožar, Tom Lazar]
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