New Feature: pyb --project-info for Machine-Readable Project Configuration

PyBuilder now supports dumping the full project configuration as machine-readable JSON, without running a build. Use pyb -i or pyb --project-info to inspect everything PyBuilder knows about your project after loading plugins and running initializers.

Clean stdout/stderr separation. JSON goes to stdout, log messages go to stderr. This means you can pipe the output directly into jq, python -m json.tool, or any JSON consumer:

# Get the project name
pyb -i 2>/dev/null | jq .project.name

# Inspect all properties with environment and overrides applied
pyb -i -E ci -P verbose=true 2>/dev/null | jq .properties

# Feed into CI scripts
PROJECT_VERSION=$(pyb -i 2>/dev/null | jq -r .project.version)

What’s included. The JSON output covers: project metadata (name, version, authors, license, URLs), all build properties (built-in and plugin-defined), loaded plugins, runtime/build/plugin/extras dependencies, available tasks with their descriptions and dependency graphs, manifest files, and package data.

No side effects. Plugin initializers run to populate properties, but no tasks execute, no venvs are created, and no dependencies are installed. It is safe and fast to run in any context.

See the usage documentation for details, or the dedicated project-info page for the full JSON schema reference and integration examples.