BundleMan 1.1.0 review

BundleMan try to manage releasing of application build on versioned products under subversion. An application is a products suite

License: GPL (GNU General Public License) File size: 33K Developer: Nuxeo SAS

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BundleMan try to manage releasing of application build on versioned products under subversion.

An application is a products suite defined using subversion svn:externals property. An application is a bundle of products.

A product is just a versioned piece of software.

Releasing an application is about taking care of tagging the source repository, managing version of each products, managing CHANGELOG, creating a source package archive, giving ways to maitain a release without blocking the trunk development.

Here are some key features of "BundleMan":
BundleMan is free software distributed under the GNU GPL.
It uses a recommended trunk/branches/tags repository layouts for products and bundles.
It uses standard versioning MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX-RELEASE for products.
Versioning of products is done automaticly by analysing a CHANGES file.
Enforce CHANGELOG quality by requiring a product CHANGES file.
It Generates an application CHANGELOG.
There is no locking of the trunk or version's conflict when patching a released application.
Can manage public, private or remote products.
BundleMan is written in python and can be easily customized.

Examples:

You can play with BundleMan in a sandbox using the unit test environment.

From the extracted archive:

$ python setup.py test
running test
...
INFO: Archive: /tmp/bm-jE9JMJ/co/APP.tgz
...
Ran 6 tests in 72.976s
OK

Look at the temporary folder /tmp/bm-{WhAtEvEr}/ you will find a svn folder which contains the svn sandbox repository and a co folder with working copies of an application. For example co/app is a trunk bundle with 2 empty products foo and bar. You can test some bm-bundle commands from here, try bm-bundle -v then try to release this apps following the use case below.

Requirements:
Subversion 1.2.0

What's New in This Release:
This new release brings new possibilities like releasing a bundle, generating a global changelog and, scp-ing the archive in one step.
The log file path is now configurable. Some bugs were fixed.