NOTE: This package is not intended for production use (at least yet). It is a protype to test out how a monorepo tool might look in Python.
A Python package build tool for handling monorepos.
A monorepo is a software-development strategy in which the code for a number of projects is stored in the same repository
Moreso than simply housing a number of "unrelated" projects, I would suggest that a monorepo's intention is to build relations between these packages, for example, having shared dependecies and/or depending on one another.
Outside of Python, examples of monorepo tools are:
- https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/v7/using-npm/workspaces
- https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch14-03-cargo-workspaces.html
At present, to my knowledge, there is no such "defacto" tool in the Python ecosytem (see e.g. pypa/hatch#233)
You can see how this looks in this repos pyproject.toml:
The build backend is set as:
[build-system]
requires = ["packaging>=22", "tomli; python_version<'3.11'"]
build-backend = "pymonorepo.backend"and workspaces are added with:
[tool.monorepo.workspace]
packages = ["packages/*"]
When build, e.g. with pip install -e .,
all workspaces are "combined" to build a single wheel or sdist