On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Jeff Forcier <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm happy to announce that Fabric 0.9 final is, at long last, out the > door and on PyPI! Please let me know if you encounter any distribution > or installation issues. Some related things of note: > Awesome news thank you for this!
> > * A "Fabric RC2" went up on PyPI a few minutes prior to final, which > was just me testing some new release/build tasks. It can be safely > ignored. I didn't even bother uploading it to the Redmine files > section. > > * Which brings me to my next point: the canonical download location > for Fabric is now http://code.fabfile.org/projects/fabric/files/ . > Obviously I'll keep using PyPI untill/unless something better takes > its place -- but for anyone wanting a stable location for package > management, that's the place. See also [1]. > +1 > * PyPI apparently doesn't follow setuptools' rules for version > ordering, and wanted to display 0.9rc1/rc2 as coming *after* 0.9.0 > final. For now I've removed the RCs, and am actively investigating my > options here. Then again, I don't expect to put prerelease versions on > PyPI in the future (RC1 was just a distribution test) so perhaps it's > a wash. > yea this is a problem. perhaps do alpha, beta and if needed c as release candidate stuff? anything after 0.9.0f will be after 0.9.0 but before 0.9.1, setuptools is.... oh well. > * I've tweaked docs.fabfile.org's Apache settings; releases are now > listed "in full", i.e. 0.9.0 or 0.9rc1 or etc. /0.9/ now redirects to > the most recent release, right now /0.9.0/. I still have to tweak this > aspect of things a bit, so bear with me. (Do let me know of any > outright breakage, though!) > > > I think that's it for now, everything else ought to mirror the RC1 > release process pretty closely. I will be reaching out to the Python > announce list, some local-to-me Python/Django user groups, and some > folks who've previously blogged about Fabric. If you know anyone who > would be interested in getting or talking about the new version, > please let them know. > > Note: I expect development to go much faster now that I've gotten over > most of the large humps involved with a rewrite and reworking of a > project like this. Writing entirely new docs and test toolchains and > release strategies takes a lot of time, but now I can do normal, > incremental tweaks and push them out when ready. I'm looking forward > to 2010 being a great year for Fabric! > Awesome. I have been pushing fabric at my work and I think I'm almost accepted which will help me contribute a lot of handy context_managers and contrib stuff. > Finally, my thanks to everyone who submitted tickets, patches, or even > just sent in a note to the mailing list -- I greatly appreciate all > the support :) > Thank you for taking over the project. I find the 0.9 codebase much better and great to hack on. > Regards, > Jeff > > [1] http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/64 > > > _______________________________________________ > Fab-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user > _______________________________________________ Fab-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fab-user
