project-generation-options.rst

Project Generation Options

project_name [Project Name]:

Your Human Readable project name, including any capitalization or spaces.

project_slug [project_slug]:

The slug of your project, without dashes or spaces. Used to name your repo and in other places where a Python-importable version of your project name is needed.

author_name [Your Name]:

You! This goes into places like the LICENSE file.

email [Your email]:

Your email address.

description [A short description of the project.]

Used in the generated README.rst and other places.

domain_name [example.com]

Whatever domain name you plan to use for your project when it goes live.

version [0.1.0]

The starting version number for your project.

timezone [UTC]

Used in the common settings file for the TIME_ZONE value.

windows [n]

Whether you'll be developing on Windows.

use_python3 [y]

By default, the Python code generated will be for Python 3.x. But if you answer n here, it will be legacy Python 2.7 code.

open_source_license [1]

Select a software license for the project. The choices are:

1. MIT
2. BSD
3. GPLv3
4. Apache Software License 2.0
5. Not open source