Some fixes, and release task improvements

• Officially supported Python versions now 3.6 .. 3.8
• fix: Handle changed pypandoc API
• fix: Add auto-mode for project layout (close #12)
• Refactored setup.py access and added some poetry support
• new release.shiv task
• releasing: do early and explicit check for pex/shiv
• releasing: use sys.executable for subcalls
• releasing: support 'pex --windows'
• release.pex: handle 3.8 having no more 'm' ABI flag
• release.pex: write archive to dist/, not bin/
• release.pex: ignore any pure wheel (none-any) when it comes to dist renaming
• release.pex: filter out platform tags with a compatible Python ABI before renaming
• git tags: better error reporting when tag splitting fails
• docs: add source to watch dirs when using API docs
• SCM versions: only consider annotated tags, and exclude 'stable'
• tasks requirements: shiv and pex for releasing
• upload_artifacts() is now usable from outside a release task

Minor improvements, and now Python3 only

• docs.upload: add 'git_path' as url variable
• docs.upload: fix for 'ssh://' git urls
• sdist: fixed MANIFEST omissions
• chg: Removed Python 2.7

Juergen Hermann jh@web.de Tue, 16 Jul 2019 13:44:59 +0200

Last Python2 release

• new: 'docs.sphinx' and 'docs.upload' task (to PyPI/WebDAV/Artifactory)
• new: convenient control of 'sphinx-autobuild' daemon
• new: added 'test' namespace and 'tox' task
• new: 'release.pex' to create PEX artifacts
• new: optional inclusion of PyRun in PEX artifacts
• new: 'release.bump' to create unique development versions
• new: build a DEB package (new 'deb' task)
• new: 'devpi' namespace with a 'refresh' task
• new: added 'freeze' as a root task
• new: 'jenkins.description' to display project metadata in the Jenkins UI
• new: support for projects with 'py_modules'
• new: 'util.filesys' module with a 'pushd' helper
• new: 'fail' helper function in 'rituals.easy'
• new: 'with_root' param for FileSet.walk()
• chg: 'test.pytest' as the default in 'test' namespace
• chg: 'prep' renamed to 'release.prep'
• chg: added '--clean' option to 'test.tox', and 'clean --tox'
• chg: exclude SCM dirs from 'clean'
• chg: improved autoenv script
• chg: better HTTP error reporting for docs upload
• chg: more unit tests (still missing a lot)
• chg: Python 3.4 support
• chg: Python3 is now the workdir default
• fix: non-git workdirs are handled correctly in 'release.prep'
• fix: support for Invoke v1 (ctask rename)

'release-prep' task, and wheels

• new: added 'release-prep' task
• new: added --skip-root to 'check', and checking './*.py' too
• new: 'dist' task automatically creates wheels if possible
• chg: better handling of 'build --docs'
• chg: added help for task parameters (closes #4)
• chg: warn about missing Sphinx docs (when '--docs' is provided)
• fix: get src package list for 'check' from 'project.packages'
• fix: use 'which' to look for 'py.test' binary (closes #2)

Initial release

v0.1.0

:package: Release 0.1.0