cookiecutter-pypackage

I usually generate new Python projects with a cookiecutter; such as cookiecutter-pypackage. I like the way that cookiecutter-pypackage includes a Makefile which has a `docs` task so that I can call `make docs` to build the sphinx docs in the docs/ directory which include: - a /docs/readme.rst that includes the /README.rst as the first document in the toctree - a sensible set of default documents: readme (.. include:: /README.rst), installation, usage, modules (sphinx-autodoc output), contributing, authors, history (.. include:: /HISTORY.rst) - a sphinx conf.py that sets the docs' version and release attributes to pkgname.__version__; so that the version number only needs to be changed in one place (as long as setup.py or setup.cfg also read the version string from pkgname.__version__) - a default set of extensions: ['sphinx.ext.autodoc',

While I do agree that this particular case may have some issues I still think that having a good starting point for people newly introduced to the ecosystem is invaluable. Cookiecutter's pypackage repo [0] isn't necessarily standard either but it does provide a lot of helpful boilerplate and 'best-practices' that are hard to integrate after the fact. [0] https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage

I personally love the idea of template projects especially when they follow best practices. I’m a long-time user of https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter and https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage which I’ve modified for my purposes. Has anyone used the golang equivalent under https://github.com/lacion/cookiecutter-golang ? Any thoughts as to whether it’s on par with commonly used practices?

It shouldn't be that hard to demonstrate "shocking" difference in experience. Could you provide an explicit list of what do you mean by "a breakdown in my earlier comment"? (obviously, I wouldn't ask for more information in my comments if your previous comments were specific enough) e.g., in language X I can do Y using command Z but Python requires A,B,C instead (implying that Z is "shockingly" better than doing A,B,C). As I understand, the issue is that you want the structure of a project in a language X to be generated for you by a single command (whatever the project) or that this command must be available by default. I've googled "python create command-line project template": $ pip install -U cookiecutter $ cookiecutter https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage.git I don't remember using this tool but If you like a machin