antsibull-core -- Library for Ansible Build Scripts

Library needed for tooling for building various things related to Ansible.

You can find a list of changes in the antsibull-core changelog.

Unless otherwise noted in the code, it is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 or, at your option, later.

antsibull-core is covered by the Ansible Code of Conduct.

Versioning and compatibility

From version 1.0.0 on, antsibull-core sticks to semantic versioning and aims at providing no backwards compatibility breaking changes during a major release cycle. We might make exceptions from this in case of security fixes for vulnerabilities that are severe enough.

The current development version is 3.x.y. 3.x.y is developed on the main branch. The current supported major version is 2.x.y. Development for 2.x.y occurs on the stable-2 branch. 1.x.y is End of Life and was developed on the stable-1 branch. It is no longer updated. 2.x.y mainly differs from 1.x.y by dropping support for Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8. It deprecates several compatibility functions for older Python versions that are no longer needed; see the changelog for details.

Development

Install and run nox to run all tests. That's it for simple contributions! nox will create virtual environments in .nox inside the checked out project and install the requirements needed to run the tests there.

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antsibull-core depends on the sister antsibull-fileutils project. By default, nox will install a development version of this project from Github. If you're hacking on antsibull-fileutils alongside antsibull-core, nox will automatically install this project from ../antsibull-fileutils when running tests if this path exists. You can change this behavior through the OTHER_ANTSIBULL_MODE env var:

• OTHER_ANTSIBULL_MODE=auto — the default behavior described above
• OTHER_ANTSIBULL_MODE=local — install the project from ../antsibull-fileutils. Fail if this path doesn't exist.
• OTHER_ANTSIBULL_MODE=git — install the project from the Github main branch
• OTHER_ANTSIBULL_MODE=pypi — install the latest version from PyPI

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To run specific tests:

1. nox -e test to only run unit tests;
2. nox -e coverage to display combined coverage results after running nox -e test;
3. nox -e lint to run all linters and formatters at once;
4. nox -e formatters to run isort and black;
5. nox -e codeqa to run flake8, pylint, reuse lint, and antsibull-changelog lint;
6. nox -e typing to run mypy and pyre

Creating a new release:

1. Run nox -e bump -- <version> <release_summary_message>. This:
   • Bumps the package version in src/antsibull_core/__init__.py.
   • Creates changelogs/fragments/<version>.yml with a release_summary section.
   • Runs antsibull-changelog release and adds the changed files to git.
   • Commits with message Release <version>. and runs git tag -a -m 'antsibull-core <version>' <version>.
   • Runs hatch build.
2. Run git push to the appropriate remotes.
3. Once CI passes on GitHub, run nox -e publish. This:
   • Runs hatch publish;
   • Bumps the version to <version>.post0;
   • Adds the changed file to git and run git commit -m 'Post-release version bump.';
4. Run git push --follow-tags to the appropriate remotes and create a GitHub release.

License

Unless otherwise noted in the code, it is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v3 or, at your option, later. See LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt for a copy of the license.

Parts of the code are vendored from other sources and are licensed under other licenses:

1. src/antsibull_core/vendored/collections.py and src/antsibull_core/vendored/json_utils.py are licensed under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause license. See LICENSES/BSD-2-Clause.txt for a copy of the license.
2. tests/functional/aiohttp_utils.py and tests/functional/certificate_utils.py are licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See LICENSES/MIT.txt for a copy of the license.
3. src/antsibull_core/vendored/_argparse_booleanoptionalaction.py is licensed under the terms of the Python Software Foundation license version 2. See LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt for a copy of the license.

The repository follows the REUSE Specification for declaring copyright and licensing information. The only exception are changelog fragments in changelog/fragments/.