Hi Jeff execute(task_obj, host_list)
sounds great - I looked for such a thing, didn't find it and we decided to run our own abstraction (learning from fabrics use of paramiko - which seems to be quite complete). Greets Philipp On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Jeff Forcier <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Philipp Keller > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From looking at the code it looks as if fabric isn't designed as "ssh > > abstraction" - but should be primarily used from the command line. > > e.g. run() is closely coupled to the rest of fabrics infrastructure (such > as > > env, or writing to stdout, or asking for password). > > Yes and no. Fabric *is* designed to be a higher level SSH abstraction > -- it's simply that until recently the main use-case we've oriented > around is the more common command line one, so the documentation and > some of the API is a bit weak when used as a library. > > For example, one thing I'd like to add is something like > execute(task_obj, host_list) which would make having to monkey with > env.host_string less necessary. This sort of thing is in the works for > the post-1.0 releases. > > -Jeff > > -- > Jeff Forcier > Unix sysadmin; Python/Ruby developer > http://bitprophet.org >
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