== Skeleton Builder Tools ==

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

In alphabetical order:

 * [[http://cookiecutter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/|Cookiecutter]]
   * uses Jinja2 template engine.
   * config file can be in either json and yaml formats.
   * Tested for use with Python 3.3, 2.7, 2.6, Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
   * Extremely popular, with over 30 community contributed templates available for Python, Django, Flask, JavaScript, Ruby, C, Open Stack, and HTML.
  * List of [[https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter#features|Full feature set]]
  * 3rd-party: [[https://pypi.org/project/cookiedough/|cookiedough]] GUI browser/installer with ~4150 cookiecutter templates.
 * [[https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.5/intro/tutorial01/|django-admin.py startproject]]
  *(limited to [[https://docs.djangoproject.com/|Django]] framework)
 * [[http://harobed.github.io/echafaudage/|Echafaudage]]
   * use [[http://pythonpaste.org/tempita/|tempita]] template engine
   * config file is in json format
   * specific feature : standalone file executable directly with python -c "$(curl ...)"
 * [[http://mrbob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/|mr.bob]] 
   * use Jinja2 template engine
   * config file is in ini format
   * specific feature : pre, post [[http://mrbob.readthedocs.org/en/latest/templateauthor.html#hooks|hooks]]
 * [[http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/narr/project.html?highlight=pcreate|pcreate]] (limited to [[http://pyramid.readthedocs.org/en/latest/|Pyramid]] framework)
 * [[http://pythonpaste.org/script/|Paste Script]] 

=== Limited to package creation ===

 * [[https://github.com/fcurella/python-packager|python-packager]]
 * [[https://pypi.python.org/pypi/modern-package-template/|modern-package-template]] (deprecated)