You’ve spent the majority of this book working up to the act of publishing a package. Throughout this book, I’ve emphasized the value of a repeatable process and automation, but so far what you’ve focused on is for only a single package. Now that you have a solid process in place for your package, what about the next package you want to create? Whether you’re interested in maintaining open source projects or becoming the subject matter expert on Python packaging in your organization, you’ll inevitably create and publish more packages. Although you might want to reinforce some of what you’ve learned by building another package from scratch, the process will start to feel pretty monotonous after the fourth or fifth one.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to extract the common elements from your existing package and some techniques for working with private and large distributed package projects at scale.
You can use the code companion (http://mng.bz/69A5) to check your work for the exercises in this chapter.