Skeleton Builder Tools

A skeleton builder tools are tools that takes a directory skeleton, copies over its directory structure to a target folder and can use a templating engine to dynamically generate the files.

Keywords : skleton, scaffolding…

• mr.bob (the more powerful)

• Tembler (depreciated, replaced by mr.bob)

• Paste Script (depreciated, replaced by mr.bob and pcreate in Pyramid framework)

• Cookiecutter (very similar with mr.bob)

• Echafaudage (very simple tool with few feature)

More informations :

• mr.bob :
  • use Jinja2 template engine
  • config file is in ini format

  • specific feature : pre, post hooks

• Cookiecutter :
  • use Jinja2 template engine
  • config file is in json format
• Echafaudage :

  • use tempita template engine

  • config file is in json format
  • specific feature : standalone file executable directly with python -c "$(curl ...)"

Limited to package creation

• modern-package-template (depreciated, replaced by mr.bob)

• python-packager

Framework specific

• pcreate (limited to Pyramid framework)

• django-admin.py startproject (limited to Django framework)