Installation

$ [sudo] pip install setup-dist

Concept

pypi/prod setup.py without unnecessary metadata (keywords, description, long_description, classifiers, url, etc)

Pros

• less production code and commits

How it works

project metadata is stored in the distribution PKG-INFO file

Usage

$ usage: python -m setup_dist ...

Features

key	default value	environment variable
name	os.path.basename(os.getcwd()).split(".")[0].lower()	SETUP_NAME
version	None	SETUP_VERSION
packages	setuptools.find_packages()	SETUP_PACKAGES
install_requires	requirements.txt lines	SETUP_INSTALL_REQUIRES or SETUP_INSTALL_REQUIRES_FILE
classifiers	classifiers.txt lines	SETUP_CLASSIFIERS or SETUP_CLASSIFIERS_FILE
scripts	scripts/ files	SETUP_SCRIPTS
keywords	None	SETUP_KEYWORDS or SETUP_KEYWORDS_FILE
description	None	SETUP_DESCRIPTION
long_description	README.md or README.rst content	SETUP_LONG_DESCRIPTION or SETUP_LONG_DESCRIPTION_FILE
license	None	SETUP_LICENSE
url	None	SETUP_URL

Examples

dist_dir="$(mktemp -d)"
export SETUP_VERSION="42"
export SETUP_DESCRIPTION="Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything"
python -m setup_dist sdist --dist-dir="$dist_dir"  1> /dev/null

twine upload

sdist="$(find "$dist_dir" -type f -name "*.tar.gz")"
twine upload --config-file=~/.pypirc "$sdist"

pypi/prod setup.py

import setuptools

setuptools.setup(
    name='NAME',
    install_requires=open('requirements.txt').read().splitlines(),
    packages=setuptools.find_packages()
)

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