Kindly open-sourced by AHL, this library has the goal of providing a one-stop-shop for Python development houses to get up and running using Python with the minimum of fuss in a Linux development environment.

This library has three main components:

• pkglib: a set of packaging tools which extend on a number of the major packaging toolsets in Python - distribute, pip and zc.buildout.
• pkglib.testing: a suite of testing utilities to assist with handling services, databases, web drivers and coverage amongst other things, as well as a number of useful py.test plugins.
• pkglib.project_template: a PasteScript template for generating packages that integrate with pkglib

There are the slides from my EuroPython 2013 talk up at http://github.com/eeaston/pkglib-docs, and the API docs are published at https://readthedocs.org/projects/pkglib.

• Package metadata all sourced from text-file setup.cfg, making it easier to parse package configuration by other releated tools.
• Advanced dependency management:
  • Allows configuration of in-house company packages that are treated differently than third-party libraries.
  • Backtracking dependency resolver to solve the difficult 'diamond problem' of version resolution in complex dependency graphs.
  • Understands 'dev' and 'release' version streams, allowing the user to operate in either mode.
  • Tools to visualise dependency graphs from your current virtualenv.
• Improved PyPI interaction, prompts for user credentials and raises correct Unix return codes on error.
• Installer search path support to allow eggs to be linked into virtualenvs from shared disk, an important feature when working on shared filesystems in large teams.
• Keeps things neat and tidy - cleans out unused packages from your virtualenv's site-packages directory.
• Py.Test integration with python setup.py test:
  • Configured for sensible defaults for code coverage and quality analysis
  • Detects when running under Jenkins and Hudson, swapping to file-based reporting and altering tempfile creation.
• Command-line tool for managing software 'platforms', an abstraction upon single packages when large numbers of interdependant packages are released together.
• Checkout and setup packages from in-house repositories by name rather than url.
• Numerous powerful setup.py targets:
  • Combine standalone package docs with automatic API documentation using Sphinx.
  • Run tests using gcov to allow gathering code coverage of C/C++ extensions.
  • Synchronise checkouts and libraries with VCS and PyPI
  • Create Jenkins/Hudson builds.
  • Generate revision-linked development eggs for build systems.
  • Generate test-only eggs to capture test code and runtime options.
  • Deploy package to versioned virtualenvs.
• 'Batteries Included' project template

• Utilities with associated Py.Test fixture plugins for:
  • Profiling code execution, including C/C++ extensions
  • Managing temp dirs
  • Creating virutalenvs
  • Creating pkglib enabled packages
  • Running up servers instances in a port-safe manner, with save, restore and teardown.
  • Supported servers include jenkins, redis, mongodb, Pyramid and (TODO) a minimal PyPI implementation.
  • Selenium Webdriver, integrated with the Pyramid server runner plugin.
• Page Objects pattern implementation for better structured Selenium tests.
• Mocking implementations for databases and other common types.

• Full support for git and mercurial.
• OSX support
• Python 2.4 -> 3.x support for core distlib functionality.
• Upgrade to latest versions of distribute, and bring the project in-line with recent developements in the Python packaging space like distlib.
• Add support for wheel binary distribution format.

• Edward Easton (eeaston@gmail.com)
• David Moss (drkjam@gmail.com)
• Terry Santegoeds
• Ed Catmur (ed@catmur.co.uk)
• Ben Walsh
• Tim Couper (drtimcouper@gmail.com)
• Inti Ocean (me@inti.co)
• Andrew Burrows
• James Blackburn
• Stepan Kolesnik (wigbam@yahoo.co.uk)
• Oisin Mulvihill (oisin.mulvihill@gmail.com)