This present project (e3) is a Python framework to ease the development of portable automated build systems (compilation, dependencies management, binary code packaging, and automated testing).

The e3 framework is split across multiple Python packages named e3-<name> and sharing the same namespace: e3.

e3-core package is organized in several packages and modules:

• archive: support for reading and writing tar and zip archives
• binarydata: helpers for parsing binary data such as object files, executables, …
• collection: generic collections, e.g. an implementation of Direct Acyclic Graphs
• decorator: Python decorators, e.g. a memoize decorator
• diff: functions to compute a diff or apply it
• env: global environment handling
• error: e3 exceptions
• fs: high-level file system operations, using globbing, walk,...
• hash: computation of sha1, md5
• log: logging helpers
• main: main program initialization, command line parsing,...
• mainloop: generic loop for running jobs
• net: network utilities
  • net.smtp: helper for sending emails through smtp.
• os: platform independent interface to Operating System functions
  • os.fs: low-level file system operations, no logging involved
  • os.platform: tools to detect the platform
  • os.process: interface to run process, to control the execution time,...
  • os.timezone: platform independent interface to get the machine timezone
• platform: generic interface for providing platform information
• platform_db: knowledge base for computing platform information
• sys: e3 information, sanity check, ...
• text: text formatting and transformation
• yaml: helpers for parsing yaml data

requires: Python 2.7.x (experimental support of Python >=3.4)

To install e3, run:

python setup.py install

All e3 dependencies will also be installed.

See CONTRIBUTING.md.