waypoint, task, tracklog readers and writers for aviation

This is a python library to read and write many important file formats for aviation. It is compatible with python 3.0 (and newer) and 2.6. Please read the documentation under https://aerofiles.readthedocs.io for further information.

• Flarm configuration file writer (aerofiles.flarmcfg)
• IGC file reader and writer (aerofiles.igc)
• OpenAir file reader and writer (aerofiles.openair)
• SeeYou CUP file reader and writer (aerofiles.seeyou)
• WELT2000 file reader (aerofiles.welt2000)
• XCSoar task file writer (aerofiles.xcsoar)

If you want to work on aerofiles you should install the necessary dependencies using pip, preferably in a virtual environment:

$ python -m venv .env
$ source .env/bin/activate
$ pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

You can run the testsuite with:

$ make test

If you close the current shell, the virtual python environment will also be deactivated. To continue working in the environment and using the installed requirements, you must use this again:

$ source .env/bin/activate

Make sure that you have checked out git submodules:

$ git submodule update --init

Then build docs using Sphinx and Make:

$ make doc

The HTML output can be found in the docs/_build/html directory.

This code is published under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for the full text.

Make sure, that all succeed:

$ make test
$ make doc-test

Ensure CHANGELOG.rst is up to date including the (next) version number. Also check, that (next) version number is included in setup.py.

Use browser with https://github.com/Turbo87/aerofiles/releases and "Draft a new release". Use "Choose a tag" to create a new tag following the structure "v1.2.1". The release title should be "aerofiles v1.2.1". Use text from CHANGELOG.rst to describe this release.

Finally use "Set as the latest release" and publish release.

Then go to https://readthedocs.org/projects/aerofiles/ and hit "Build-Version" to update the documentation from github.com.