github-distutils

github-distutils is a tool that provides distribute/setuptools/distutils commands for GitHub. You can use GitHub downloads instead of PyPI downloads for release.

To use this, follow the instruction.

Instruction

First of all your software must be packaged within the standard distribution way: use distutils, Distribute or setuptools. This package contains an extension command for that.

Then, add this package into setup_requires parameter of your setup() configuration (of setup.py script):

setup(name='YourPackageName',
 version='1.2.3',
 ...,
 setup_requires=['github-distutils >= 0.1.0'])

Now there will be github_upload command for your setup.py:

 python setup.py github_upload --help
Common commands: (see '--help-commands' for more)

...

Options for 'github_upload' command:
 --repository (-R) GitHub repository name e.g. user/reponame
 --username (-u) GitHub username
 --password (-p) GitHub password

...

If -u/--username and -p/--password are not present, it will shows the prompt. -R/--repository is required.

Upload

Upload is very easy:

 python setup.py sdist github_upload -R user/reponame register

By explained:

sdist
 Makes the source distribution file. If your package name is YourPackageName and its version is 1.2.3, and then its file name becomes YourPackageName-1.2.3.tar.gz.
github_upload -R user/reponame
 Uploads the built source distribution file into your GitHub repository. It does not mean that it will be version-controlled, but it will be simply uploaded to its downloads page.
register
 Using the GitHub download URL registers the package of this version into PyPI. The URL of PyPI page will be http://pypi.python.org/YourPackageName/1.2.3

Defaulting options

You can make default values for these options by specifying in the setup.cfg configuration file. For example, if you want to default --repository, make setup.cfg file like (hyphens becomes underscores):

[upload]
repository = user/reponame

You can make a shorthand alias as well:

[aliases]
release = sdist github_upload register

You can checkout the source code from its GitHub repository:

 git clone git://github.com/dahlia/github-distutils.git

If you found a bug, please report it to the issue tracker.

For Bitbucket users

Use bitbucket-distutils which is a package by the same author if you are using Bitbucket instead of GitHub.

What is new in this release:

• Allow upper cases for GitHub repository names. [#1 by Xavier Barbosa]
• Windows compatibility: fixed UnicodeDecodeError for uploads.

Requirements:

• Python