Programmatic API - manifestoo_core

[sbidoul]

Currently, there is no documented nor stable API.

My current plan to create such an API, is to extract it progressively into a separate manifestoo_core library.

The reason for a separate library is to keep it lightweight, without the typer/click dependencies.

Initial scope would be

• Basic functions to read manifests
• The Odoo base addons lists (which is also copied in setuptools-odoo and click-odoo-contrib, so it makes sense to make it reusable)
• It could also grow a function to convert a manifest to python core metadata - i.e. the core function of setuptools-odoo. Having this independent of setuptools-odoo would allow easier creation of modern successors to setuptools-odoo.