gentle ====== [](https://drone.tildegit.org/CyberTaIlor/gentle) [](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/8269) **Gent**oo **L**azy **E**ntry — a `metadata.xml` generator. If you need a distro-agnostic solution, try [upstream-ontologist][u-o]! [u-o]: https://github.com/jelmer/upstream-ontologist Supported generators -------------------- * Crystal ([Shards](https://github.com/crystal-lang/shards/blob/master/docs/shard.yml.adoc)) * Dart ([Pub](https://dart.dev/tools/pub/pubspec)) * Haskell ([Hpack](https://github.com/sol/hpack/blob/main/README.md)) * Java ([Maven](https://maven.apache.org/pom.html)) * .NET ([NuGet](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/nuget/reference/nuspec)) * Node.js ([npm](https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json/), [Bower](https://github.com/bower/spec/blob/master/json.md)) * Perl ([CPAN::Meta::Spec](http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?CPAN::Meta::Spec)) * PHP ([Composer](https://getcomposer.org/doc/04-schema.md), [PEAR/PECL](https://pear.php.net/manual/en/guide.developers.package2.php)) * Python ([PEP 621](https://peps.python.org/pep-0621/), [PEP 643](https://peps.python.org/pep-0643/), [Setuptools](https://setuptools.pypa.io/en/latest/userguide/declarative_config.html)) * Ruby ([Gem metadata](https://guides.rubygems.org/specification-reference/)) * Rust ([Cargo](https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html)) Language-independent: * [DOAP](https://github.com/ewilderj/doap/wiki) * [GNU Autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/autoconf-2.71/html_node/Initializing-configure.html) Dependencies ------------ * Required: * [Portage](https://pypi.org/project/portage/) * [lxml](https://lxml.de/) * Optional: * [GNU Autoconf](https://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf/) * [pkginfo](https://pypi.org/project/pkginfo/) * [PyYAML](https://pyyaml.org/) * [rdflib](https://pypi.org/project/rdflib/) * [Tomli](https://pypi.org/project/tomli/) Installing ---------- ### Gentoo ```sh emerge app-portage/gentle ``` ### Other systems `pip install gentle-mxml --user` Packaging --------- You can track new releases using an [atom feed][atom] provided by GitHub. [atom]: https://github.com/cybertailor/gentle/releases.atom Contributing ------------ Patches and pull requests are welcome. Please use either [git-send-email(1)][git-send-email] or [git-request-pull(1)][git-request-pull], addressed to . If you prefer GitHub-style workflow, use the [mirror repo][gh] to send pull requests. Your commit message should conform to the following standard: ``` file/changed: Concice and complete statement of the purpose This is the body of the commit message. The line above is the summary. The summary should be no more than 72 chars long. The body can be more freely formatted, but make it look nice. Make sure to reference any bug reports and other contributors. Make sure the correct authorship appears. ``` Code style is whatever the almighty linters say, should be at least [PEP 8][pep8]. [git-send-email]: https://git-send-email.io/ [git-request-pull]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-request-pull [gh]: http://github.com/cybertailor/gentle [pep8]: https://peps.python.org/pep-0008/ IRC --- You can join the `#gentle` channel either on [Libera Chat][libera] or [via Matrix][matrix]. [libera]: https://libera.chat/ [matrix]: https://matrix.to/#/#gentle:sysrq.in License ------- WTFPL