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diff --git a/python/pbr/README b/python/pbr/README index 45ef2f90b8..0b25866fe4 100644 --- a/python/pbr/README +++ b/python/pbr/README @@ -1,6 +1,16 @@ -PBR is a library that injects some useful and sensible default behaviors into your setuptools run. +pbr (manage setuptools packaging) -PBR is only mildly configurable. The basic idea is that there's a decent way to run things and if -you do, you should reap the rewards, because then it's simple and repeatable. If you want to do -things differently, cool! But you've already got the power of python at your fingertips, so you -don't really need PBR. +A library for managing setuptools packaging in a consistent manner. + +PBR is a library that injects some useful and sensible default behaviors +into your setuptools run. + +PBR reads and then filters the setup.cfg data through a setup hook to +fill in default values and provide more sensible behaviors, and then +feeds the results in as the arguments to a call to setup.py + +PBR is only mildly configurable. The basic idea is that there's a decent +way to run things and if you do, you should reap the rewards, because +then it's simple and repeatable. If you want to do things differently, +cool! But you've already got the power of python at your fingertips, +so you don't really need PBR. |