Microprobe package organization

Microprobe is distributed using Python wheels packages via the public Python Package Index (PyPI).

Release version scheme

The release scheme is simple. It is as follows:

• stable and development releases: <major>.<minor>.<tag> (e.g. 0.5.<tag>` , ``0.9.<tag>, 1.0.<tag>, 1.1.<tag>).

The release tag is a time-stamp of the release in the form of <year><month><day><hour><minute><second>. So, it is straighforward to figure out the relation between releases.

Packages

In order to provide fine-grained granularity of the different features and target definitions provided by Microprobe, the code is split in several packages. You’ll find them in the corresponding repositories. Meta-packages are also provided to avoid the tedious task of updating all the packages one by one.

The list of packages is the following:

Common packages:

Name	Type	Description
microprobe_all	Meta-Package	All Microprobe common packages
microprobe_core	Package	Core modules
microprobe_doc	Package	Documentation

Backend packages:

Name	Type	Description
microprobe_target_riscv	Package	All RISCV target/tools definitions
microprobe_target_power	Package	All PowerPC target/tools definitions

POWER packages:

Name	Type	Description
microprobe_target_power_priv	Package	All private POWER target/tools definitions

Private packages:

Name	Type	Description
microprobe_target_private	Package	All private target/tools definitions

Z packages:

Name	Type	Description
microprobe_target_z	Package	All Z target/tools definitions