This is a simple command line script to build rom systems and bios readme files from a template and using the Recalbox manifest file to retrieve datas.

pip install recalbox-manifesto

This package have some dependancies, if you don't want to install them on your system, install it through virtualenv:

mkdir manifesto
cd manifesto
virtualenv --no-site-packages --setuptools .
bin/pip install recalbox-manifesto
source bin/activate

The command require a path to XML manifest file, for testing purpose you can get the one currently shipped into recalbox-manager :

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sveetch/recalbox-manager/master/project/MANIFEST.xml

Then you can invoke the builder like that:

recalbox-manifesto -m MANIFEST.xml --roms /home/foo/roms --bios /home/foo/bios

You can see that you have to specify a directory path for bios and roms where the readme files will be created. If you don't give a path for bios or roms, they won't be builded.

These paths have to exists. Note that rom systems files are created into a directory named from their system key, this will so create a structure like that:

├── atari2600
│   └── readme.txt
├── mame
│   └── readme.txt
├── mastersystem
│   └── readme.txt
├── megadrive
│   └── readme.txt
├── n64
│   └── readme.txt
├── neogeo
│   └── readme.txt
├── nes
│   └── readme.txt
├── pcengine
│   └── readme.txt
├── snes
│   └── readme.txt
├── virtualboy
│   └── readme.txt
└── wswan
    └── readme.txt

Use the help command action to see command options details :

recalbox-manifesto --help