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Vision

Defend Against Fruit is focused on providing a pragmatic, continuous deployment style build system for Python. Current Python build systems do not properly account for the needs of effective continuous deployment. This package extends the Python tooling to add the missing pieces.

With an eye to agile development principles and fast-feedback, we want a build system which satisfies the following goals:

For in-depth documentation with lots of pretty diagrams, take a look at the wiki.

Authors

The majority of Defend Against Fruit has been co-developed by James Carpenter and Matthew Tardiff, but many others provided considerable assistance.

For more details, please see the Authors and Contributors wiki page.


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