Initial public release — aci-sim v0.16.0

aci-sim is a stateful REST simulator of a 2-site Cisco ACI fabric
(per-site APIC + ND/NDO management planes) — for testing ACI automation
(Ansible cisco.aci / cisco.mso, aci-py, custom REST clients) and CI gates
without real hardware.

Highlights: APIC + NDO REST surface served from one in-memory MIT built
from a declarative topology.yaml; port mode + sandbox (real per-device IPs
on :443) run modes; LLDP/CDP neighbor visibility; NDO->APIC deploy mirror
(multi-site templates materialize onto the target sites' APIC stores);
real-APIC fvBD default attributes; file-backed state save/restore; an
`aci-sim` CLI (validate/show/graph/run/new/init/lldp); and an 888-test suite.

History squashed for the public release.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

pyproject.toml

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+[project]
+name = "aci-sim"
+version = "0.16.0"
+description = "Faithful REST simulator of a 2-site Cisco ACI fabric (per-site APIC + ND/NDO)"
+readme = "README.md"
+license = "MIT"
+authors = [
+    { name = "aci-sim contributors" },
+]
+requires-python = ">=3.11"
+classifiers = [
+    # No "License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License" classifier: the SPDX
+    # `license = "MIT"` field above supersedes license classifiers (PEP 639)
+    # and modern setuptools rejects having both.
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Intended Audience :: System Administrators",
+    "Operating System :: OS Independent",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.11",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3.12",
+    "Topic :: System :: Networking",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Testing",
+    "Typing :: Typed",
+]
+# Runtime dependencies are declared statically here (NOT `dynamic`) so that a
+# plain `pip install aci-sim` / `pip install .` pulls them in. requirements.txt
+# is kept as a dev convenience (it also lists the test-only extras below).
+dependencies = [
+    "fastapi>=0.110",
+    "uvicorn[standard]>=0.29",
+    "pydantic>=2.6",
+    "pyyaml>=6.0",
+]
+
+[project.optional-dependencies]
+# Test/dev-only — not needed to run the simulator. `pip install -e '.[dev]'`.
+dev = [
+    "httpx>=0.27",
+    "pytest>=8.0",
+    "pytest-asyncio>=0.23",
+]
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/dtzp555-max/aci-sim"
+Repository = "https://github.com/dtzp555-max/aci-sim"
+Changelog = "https://github.com/dtzp555-max/aci-sim/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md"
+
+[project.scripts]
+aci-sim = "aci_sim.cli:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+# Auto-discover ALL subpackages (aci_sim.topology/build/rest_aci/ndo/
+# mit/runtime/query/control/...) — a bare `packages = ["aci_sim"]` would
+# ship only the top-level module and omit every subpackage.
+include = ["aci_sim*"]
+
+[tool.pytest.ini_options]
+asyncio_mode = "auto"
+testpaths = ["tests"]
+
+[tool.ruff]
+line-length = 100
+target-version = "py311"
+
+[tool.ruff.lint]
+select = ["E", "F", "I", "UP", "B"]
+ignore = ["E501"]