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taler-util
==========
-util code for the GNU Taler project.
+taler-util contains util code for the GNU Taler project,
+specifically it contains python code for:
-License
--------
-
-Python modules contained in this package are licensed LGPL 3 (or later).
+- amount representation
+- logging
+- configuration parsing
tests
-----
+
To run the unittests, execute
- python3.7 setup.py test
+ tox
+
+or
+
+ make test
Installation
------------
-You can use standard python tools to handle the setup,
-or use the Makefile and GNU standards wrapper around them.
+The wheel release can be installed as-is from pypi.org
+as it includes only what is necessary.
+
+The source distribution tarball (sdist) includes two
+build-systems:
+
+1. a small GNU guidelines following wrapper around python's pip
+2. python's default build-facility used via setup
+
+License
+-------
+
+Python modules contained in this package are licensed LGPL 3 (or later).
+
+This does not cover code contained in build-system/taler-build-scripts,
+which is included in the source distribution of this software.
+taler-build-scripts is (mostly) 0BSD / public-domain software.