Copyright 2015 Thomas Leonard et al

0template is a tool for creating Zero Install feeds from template files. It is mainly used to add new releases to feeds managed by 0repo.

To make the 0template command available on your command-line you can run:

0install add 0template http://0install.net/tools/0template.xml

To create a new template file you can then use a command like the following:

0template my-app.xml.template

To generate a template file from an existing feed using simple heuristics instead use:

0template my-app.xml.template --from-feed=my-app.xml

Once you have a template file you can pass in values for variables defined in the template:

0template my-app.xml.template version=1.0

Alternatively you can also use environment variables instead of command-line arguments to pass in values for variables defined in the template:

version=1.0 0template my-app.xml.template

Both options will cause 0template to create a new file named my-app-1.0.xml with any occurences of {version} substituted with 1.0 and <manifest-digest>s calculated.

You can let 0template generate an archive from a local directory by adding something like this to your template:

<implementation local-path="directory/to/pack/in/archive">
  <manifest-digest />
  <archive href="archive-name.tar.bz2" type="application/x-bzip-compressed-tar" />
</implementation>

For additional documentation please see: http://0install.net/0template.html

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA