CodeMeta Tools provides a simple command line tool called cmt that can be used to generate project files and software artifacts. It provides a tool called cme to edit and manage the CodeMeta file.
The project focuses on leveraging CodeMeta data, directory name and Git repo information for building and release software written in Python, Go, JavaScript or TypeScript. It was motivated by the practices in Caltech Library's Digital Development Group.
The tools are intended to be run from the project root directory. cmt expects the file path of your codemeta.json file as well as one or more target files to be generated. The target file's extension determines the generated content. The tool can generate the following project files based on the contents of the codemeta.json file. cme expects the file path of your codemeta.json file and optionally the attributes of the CodeMeta object you wish to manage.
cme is used to create and manage "codemeta.json". cmt is used to generate the following.
- README.md
- INSTALL.md
- installer.sh
- installer.ps1
- CITATION.cff
- version.ts, version.js, version.go or version.py
- about.md
- page.tmpl (Pandoc template) or page.hbs (handlebars template)
- Makefile (for Go or Deno based projects)
- website.mak
- release.bash
- publish.bash
- version: 0.0.39
- status: active
- released: 2025-08-06
Corrected CodeMeta version number, shoud have been v0.0.38 but was set to v0.0.34 (a prior release).
Bug fixes.
- Issue #33, Updates the code that generates search.md to include proper path handling and to process a '?q=<SEARCH_TERM>' URL string.
- Doiel, R. S.
- Morrell, Tom
- Doiel, R. S.
- Deno >= 2.4.3
- CMTools >= 0.0.37
- GNU Make >= 3.81
- Pandoc >= 3.1
- Git >= 2.39
- Getting Help, Reporting bugs
- LICENSE
- Installation
- About