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automatic-pypi-release
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Automatically build and release to pypi, incrementing the version without user intervention.
Note: This project should be used as a template to build your repository and enable automatic publish to pypi.
This repository does the following:
This project is setup to use semver, so it will need an initial tag in the format of "x.y.0" (The last number must be 0).
Your project must have the following files:
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A pip package
We found that automatic-pypi-release demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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