In my previous post I talked about my motivation for creating pelicangit. I’ve spent this last week polishing it up a bit and have now made v0.1 available on PyPI. If you already have pelican and pip installed on your machine, installing pelicangit is now as easy as running sudo pip install pelicangit.

For more details on configuring pelicangit, check out the documentation on the github page or the PyPI page

PS. This is probably the first time I’ve publicly distributed a command line tool and I was really impressed at how easy it is with python. Essentially you write a simple setup.py configuration file detailing things like which python scripts you want to be console commands (copied to /usr/local/bin), then run a single command which asks for your PyPi credentials and that’s it: Your distribution is built, uploaded to PyPi and made available to the world. I wish getting Java Libraries into the public maven repository was that easy!

This will likely make Python my go-to language if I want to make any other command line tools in the future.