Packaging

Entry_points are used in a lot of my projects as they’re a fairly simple way of adding plugin points. Recently I was wondering if there was a tool or site that maps them to PyPI though I am not aware of any of them. I spent a little time prototyping with an idea to see how much of it might be feasable.

Django has a System check framework that is useful for doing automatic checks. I wanted something similar that I could use as I update some PyPI projects . Thanks to asking a question on Mastodon , I was introduced to Scientific Python’s repo-review tool.

Python projects support a list of URLs when creating your pyproject.toml, however I often forget the specific categories. Similar to my add-classifiers project, I have created uvx add-url as a helper.

Python uses a list of “Trove classifiers ” to add some structured meta data to projects. It can be a bit tedius to add these manually. Combining the ease of uvx with a Python package, we can simplify this.

I have been using salt for quite a while (oldest commit in my personal salt states repo is 2010), but have usually taken the old approach to distributing modules. By setting the file_roots you can automatically sync all your modules with the saltutil.sync_all command.

file_roots:
  base:
    - /srv/salt
    - /srv/salt-kafka
    - /srv/salt-forgejo

With our file_roots defined, our plugin repo looks like this

tree /srv/salt-kafka
├── LICENSE
├── README.md
└── _engines
    └── kafka_consumer.py

This is useful, but for maintainability, I finally sat down to look at how to package things up more properly.