Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: astropy-helpers
Version: 3.0.2
Summary: Utilities for building and installing Astropy, Astropy affiliated packages, and their respective documentation.
Home-page:  https://github.com/astropy/astropy-helpers
Author: The Astropy Developers
Author-email: astropy.team@gmail.com
License: BSD
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable
Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
Classifier: Framework :: Setuptools Plugin
Classifier: Framework :: Sphinx :: Extension
Classifier: Framework :: Sphinx :: Theme
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Build Tools
Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules
Classifier: Topic :: System :: Archiving :: Packaging
Requires-Python: >=3.5
License-File: LICENSE.rst

astropy-helpers
===============

* Stable versions: https://pypi.org/project/astropy-helpers/
* Development version, issue tracker: https://github.com/astropy/astropy-helpers


.. warning::

    Please note that version ``v3.0`` and later of ``astropy-helpers`` does
    require Python 3.5 or later. If you wish to maintain Python 2 support
    for your package that uses ``astropy-helpers``, then do not upgrade the
    helpers to ``v3.0+``. We will still provide Python 2.7 compatible
    releases on the ``v2.0.x`` branch during the lifetime of the ``astropy``
    core package LTS of ``v2.0.x``.

This project provides a Python package, ``astropy_helpers``, which includes
many build, installation, and documentation-related tools used by the Astropy
project, but packaged separately for use by other projects that wish to
leverage this work.  The motivation behind this package and details of its
implementation are in the accepted
`Astropy Proposal for Enhancement (APE) 4 <https://github.com/astropy/astropy-APEs/blob/master/APE4.rst>`_.

The ``astropy_helpers.extern`` sub-module includes modules developed elsewhere
that are bundled here for convenience. At the moment, this consists of the
following two sphinx extensions:

* `numpydoc <https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc>`_, a Sphinx extension
  developed as part of the Numpy project. This is used to parse docstrings
  in Numpy format

* `sphinx-automodapi <https://github.com/astropy/sphinx-automodapi>`_, a Sphinx
  extension developed as part of the Astropy project. This used to be developed
  directly in ``astropy-helpers`` but is now a standalone package.

Issues with these sub-modules should be reported in their respective repositories,
and we will regularly update the bundled versions to reflect the latest released
versions.

``astropy_helpers`` includes a special "bootstrap" module called
``ah_bootstrap.py`` which is intended to be used by a project's setup.py in
order to ensure that the ``astropy_helpers`` package is available for
build/installation.  This is similar to the ``ez_setup.py`` module that is
shipped with some projects to bootstrap `setuptools
<https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools>`_.

As described in APE4, the version numbers for ``astropy_helpers`` follow the
corresponding major/minor version of the `astropy core package
<http://www.astropy.org/>`_, but with an independent sequence of micro (bugfix)
version numbers. Hence, the initial release is 0.4, in parallel with Astropy
v0.4, which will be the first version  of Astropy to use ``astropy-helpers``.

For examples of how to implement ``astropy-helpers`` in a project,
see the ``setup.py`` and ``setup.cfg`` files of the
`Affiliated package template <https://github.com/astropy/package-template>`_.

.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/astropy/astropy-helpers.svg
    :target: https://travis-ci.org/astropy/astropy-helpers

.. image:: https://coveralls.io/repos/astropy/astropy-helpers/badge.svg
    :target: https://coveralls.io/r/astropy/astropy-helpers


