Distribution

Besides providing a framework for writing your software efficiently, software needs ways to be distributed to reach the end-user. The MRV distribution system is written such that it cannot only distribute MRV, but also projects using it.

The main features are:

• Manage version and project information non-redundantly
• Compile documentation using Sphinx and/or Epydoc
• Create source or binary distributions and provide tag-management facilities using git.
• Bake external dependencies into your distribution
• Incorporate your test-suite to verify the products functionality before and after the distribution was generated.
• Easy basic customization
• Compatible to default python distutils and working with easy_install.
• Operational on Linux, OSX and Windows

The following guide will explain the individual MRV distribution facilities, how MRV uses them, and how you can use them easily.

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• Project Information Module
  • Module Contents
• The Setup Script
  • Intimacies of sdist, build_py, and install
  • Distribution Flags
  • Subcommands
  • Command Bases
• The Documentation Generator
  • makedoc
• Distribution Workflow
  • Distribution Tracking
  • Quality Assurance
  • Distribution Targets
  • The Source Distribution
  • The Binary Distribution
  • The Documentation Distribution
  • Verifying the Installation
  • Automation
  • The Python Package Index