The setup tools are used to simplify the development and distribution of my python projects. The stuff found in this package has been collected over the time and finally been separated into its own package. It’s nothing great but a neverending task nevertheless...
Setup tools are currently available for python2 versions only (starting with python 2.2). Python 3 is not supported yet.
A generated API documentation is available.
Beta.
The Setup Tools are available under the terms and conditions of the “Apache License, Version 2.0.” You’ll find the detailed licensing terms in the root directory of the source distribution package or online at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.
There are hashes (MD5, SHA1 and SHA256) of the download packages stored in the digests file. In order to check the integrity of the downloaded file, use a tool like md5sum (or sha1sum, sha256sum accordingly), e.g.:
$ md5sum -c setup-0.9.0.digests
setup-0.9.0.tar.bz2: OK
setup-0.9.0.tar.gz: OK
setup-0.9.0.tar.lzma: OK
setup-0.9.0.zip: OK
In order to check the integrity of the digest file itself, you can check the PGP signature of that file. The file is signed by André Malo, Key-ID 0x8103A37E:
$ gpg --verify setup-0.9.0.digests
gpg: Signature made Mon Sep 13 22:28:10 2010 CEST using DSA key ID 8103A37E
gpg: Good signature from "Andre Malo <nd@apache.org>"
gpg: aka "Andr\xe9\x20Malo <nd@perlig.de>"
gpg: aka "Andre Malo <ndparker@gmx.net>"
The Setup Tools were written and are maintained by André Malo.