Best way to get parts of rever.xsh from other places

[CJ-Wright]

There is some boilerplate rever.xsh things that I use for the XPD stack. What would be the best way to centralize that boilerplate so I don't need to keep writing it? (I imagine some other places would like this as well, eg. conda-forge)

[scopatz]

You can always import a module (.py or .xsh), call a function, etc. If there are common patterns that you are seeing, maybe we could put them in rever or you could always create your own package that your rever.xsh happens to depend on.

[CJ-Wright]

It's mostly just the github org, the changelog prepend things.

[scopatz]

ie everything is the same except the github org?

[CJ-Wright]

The org is the same the project name isn't.

[scopatz]

but then everything else is the same?

[CJ-Wright]

https://github.com/xpdAcq/xpdAcq/blob/master/rever.xsh vs. https://github.com/xpdAcq/xpdAn/blob/master/rever.xsh

There are some other differences but I could use templating to reduce those changes.

[scopatz]

I would write a function that takes the repo / project name and then sets all of the env vars, rather than templating.

[CJ-Wright]

That's fair. I can put that function in some central repo which everything depends on.

[scopatz]

I mean, you could ever through it in a repo and then have rever.xsh download it and then import/source it :smiley:

[CJ-Wright]

I was thinking about using exec :)

[scopatz]

Either way!