Paver: the build tool you missed
summary
Paver is a Python build tool that replaces brittle Makefiles and hacks by putting tasks in a single pavement.py file, calling setuptools, and supporting pip editable installs; it runs ordered tasks with dependency decorators and positional/options handling, executes shell commands via an sh wrapper, and provides a dry-run decorator that prints destructive actions instead of executing them. It builds docs (doctools), bootstraps buildout, embeds paver-min for portable installs, and adds a discovery layer to expose Django and Fabric commands — used in production at Centrum Holdings and hosted on GitHub.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 0:45Stumbling upon Paver
- 3:44Single Point of Entry
- 4:50Getting started (First Task!)
- 6:54setup.py compatibility
- 8:39Dependencies
- 8:55Overwriting distutils commands
- 10:47Positional arguments
- 11:27CMD options, GNU style
- 13:49Namespace search
- 18:36Documentation sphinx
- 19:01Documentation (co)
- 23:13Setting up django discovery
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