What is this fork for?:
Essentially the exact same reasoning as Jon discusses below, but with the intention of having a PyPI-published copy available, and an automated test pipeline.
pip install PyXB-X
Internally, PyXB holds 2 version numbers: a package version (used for installation, PyPi etc.) and a PyXB version (used for checking schema compatibility).
The purpose of this project is to keep PyXB running on newer Python releases, and provide minor bug fixes that do not break backwards compatibility with the last official release of PyXB (1.2.6). Therefore, the PyXB version (pyxb/__init__.py:version) will remain at 1.2.6 indefinitely. In order to maintain some kind of remotely sensible package versioning, packages will all be versioned 1.2.6.x, where x is the PyXB-X release number.
While this is not strictly semantic versioning, given that we're really just doing maintenance releases, it's close enough as no change should ever break backwards compatibility.
Jon Foster (upstream) PyXB README follows:
What is this fork for?:
At work, I use a few closed-source tools that use PyXB - some of which I maintain. This repository has the necessary patches to make PyXB work for me.
I don't have the time, inclination or the knowledge of PyXB's internals to be a proper open-source maintainer for PyXB. This fork is just getting bugfixes as I need them. I will accept small pull requests that fix bugs, but not anything big or risky or hard-to-test. I have no interest in doing formal public releases or submitting this to PyPy.
My experience is that PyXB is very complex and seriously lacking documentation, and does not have a stable API, but it can be made to work with some trial-and-error. The concept is great, and it works, and I'm not aware of anything better (though I haven't looked for a couple of years).
-- Jon Foster
Original (upstream) PyXB README follows:
The source releases includes pre-built bundles for common XML namespaces, assorted web service namespaces, and SAML. A bundle with over 75 namespaces related to Geographic Information Systems is also available; if you want those, read pyxb/bundles/opengis/README.txt before installing PyXB.
Installation: python setup.py install
Documentation: doc/html or https://pabigot.github.io/pyxb/
Help Forum: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=956708
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