Mister Bob the Builder creates directory skeletons.

Documentation

TODO

• [medium] refactor Python API
• [medium] gittip
• [medium] add +var+ folder in template_sample
• [medium] Check how one would implement multi-namespace python package with current mr.bob api
• [low] Ability to configure what to ignore when copying templates in bobconfig (as a hook?)
• [low] better format print questions output (keep order of questions -> use order information like for asking questions)
• [low] document we don't need local commands once answers are remembered (just issue another template on top of current)
• [low] ability to specify variables/defaults to questions from cli
• [maybe] ability to simulate rendering (dry-run)
• [maybe] ability to update/patch templates

Changelog

1.0.1 (2024-02-29)

• Add support for Python 3.12 [pbauer]

1.0.0 (2022-09-24)

• Support for Python 3.10, drop Python 2 support. [pbauer]

0.1.2 (2015-08-19)

• Add pre_ask and post_ask hooks. [Godefroid Chapelle]
• Upload tarball instead of zipfile to fix unicode errors during installation [Domen Kožar]

0.1.1 (2014-03-03)

• Claim Python 3.4 support [Domen Kožar]
• Fix encoding errors on Python 3 during installation [Domen Kožar]
• Use Jinja2 < 2.7 only for python 3.2 [Domen Kožar]

0.1 (2014-03-02)

• move exceptions to bobexceptions [Jean-Philippe Camguilhem]
• Use jinja2 < 2.7, since 2.7+ doesn't support Python 3.2 [Domen Kožar]
• Filename variable name substitution regex failed to compile on windows [Domen Kožar]
• Do not copy .DS_Store. [Godefroid Chapelle]
• Configure patterns of files to ignore through ignored_files option of mr.bob section. [Godefroid Chapelle]
• Configure patterns of directories to ignore through ignored_directories option of mr.bob section. [Fotis Gimian]
• Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.to_integer [Fotis Gimian]
• Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.to_decimal [Fotis Gimian]
• Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.validate_choices [Fotis Gimian]
• Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.validate_regex [Fotis Gimian]
• Added new pre-question hook mrbob.hooks.set_current_datetime [Fotis Gimian]
• Added new post-question hook mrbob.hooks.validate_datetime [Fotis Gimian]

0.1a9 (2013-04-26)

• Regex to detect variable names when rendering file names was broken when directory path contains pluses. [Godefroid Chapelle]

0.1a8 (2013-03-11)

• Depend on six>=1.2.0 [Domen Kožar]
• Moved all exceptions to mrbob.exceptions module [Domen Kožar]
• Fix loading of zip files [Domen Kožar]
• #28: Remote loading of config files [Nejc Zupan]
• #30: Keep newlines of rendered template [Domen Kožar]

0.1a7 (2013-01-23)

• Don't depend on argparse in python 2.7 and higher, since it's already in stdlib [Domen Kožar]
• #22: Prevent users from specifying target directory inside template dir [Domen Kožar]

0.1a6 (2013-01-02)

• Use StrictUndefined with jinja2 renderer so that any missing key is reported as an error [Domen Kožar]
• If a key in a namespace was missing while rendering, no error was raised [Domen Kožar]
• Added hook mrbob.hooks.show_message [Domen Kožar]
• mrbob.validators.boolean renamed to mrbob.hooks.to_boolean [Domen Kožar]
• Renamed validators.py to hooks.py [Domen Kožar]
• Removed validators and action settings from [questions] as it is superseded by hooks [Domen Kožar]
• Added pre_ask_question and post_ask_question to [questions] section [Domen Kožar]
• Added pre_render, post_render and post_render_msg options [Domen Kožar]
• Added [defaults] section that will override template defaults. The only difference to [variables] is that variables provide default answers [Domen Kožar]
• Moved renderer parameter to [template] section [Domen Kožar]
• Added [template] section that is parsed only from .mrbob.ini inside a template directory. [Domen Kožar]
• Correctly evaluate boolean of quiet and verbose settings [Domen Kožar]
• Added non_interactive setting that will not prompt for any input and fail if any of required questions are not answered [Domen Kožar]
• Added remember_answers setting that will create .mrbob.ini file inside rendered directory with all the answers written to [variables] section [Domen Kožar]
• Include changelog in documentation [Domen Kožar]
• Question does no longer raise error if unknown parameter is passed from a config file. Instead those parameters are saved to question.extra that can be later inspected and validated. This is first step to have advanced question types such as question with a set of predefined answers [Domen Kožar]
• Rewrite all py.test stuff to nosetests, so we have unified testing now. This also fixes flake8 segfaults on pypy [Domen Kožar]

0.1a5 (2012-12-12)

• #26: Variables were not correctly parsed from config files [Domen Kožar]

0.1a4 (2012-12-11)

• Fix MANIFEST.in so that template examples are also included with distribution [Domen Kožar]
• Add -q/--quiet option to suppress output which isn't strictly necessary [Sasha Hart]
• Suppress the interactive-mode welcome banner if there are no questions to ask [Sasha Hart]
• Don't raise KeyError: 'questions_order' if [questions] is missing in an ini [Sasha Hart]

0.1a3 (2012-11-30)

• #13: Read user config from ~/.mrbob (as stated in docs and inline comments). [Andreas Kaiser]

0.1a2 (2012-11-29)

• #12: Fix unicode errors when using non-ASCII in questions or defaults [Domen Kožar]
• Ask questions in same order they were defined in template configuration file [Domen Kožar]

0.1a1 (2012-10-19)

• Initial release. [Domen Kožar, Tom Lazar]