Howdy all;
Earlier this year I added a few features to Fabric that I've always wanted to
see. In talking with Jeff about them, we're getting close to having them added
in. As such, I'm posting the changes here in hopes that we can make them the
best they could possibly be.
First, one of my main goals was to maintain BC. All of the features added
continue to work as they always have, with a few additions.
Things add:
* @task decorator: if one of these is present, only Task objects are used
* __all__ support: secondarily, if there is an __all__ within the fabfile, it
is used to determine what is a task and what is not
* namespaced task modules: any module that's imported into a fabfile that has a
module-level variable of FABRIC_TASK_MODULE = True is added, with it's name
(i.e., import db would mean the task is referenced via db.init, import db as
awesome is awesome.init)
* Added a write_to_file() and write() to fabric.contrib.files to allow
differing ways of writing to files
* Added fabric.operations.do() which allows you to switch between local/run by
setting env.run_as (useful for using the same Fabric tasks locally to do the
same things it can do remotely)
* Added `via` kwarg to all operations to allow overriding the internal command
that is being run
You can view all of these on GitHub via the compare view:
http://github.com/bitprophet/fabric/compare/master...tswicegood:master
If you have any comments, suggestions, etc., please let me know. FWIW, I've
been using this branch of Fabric since December and it's worked great. If you
want to see some examples of the new syntax for namespaced tasks, checkout the
d51.fabric.tasks.* repos at http://github.com/domain51/
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