Re: [Fab-user] Fabric 0.9 final(ly out!)

[Bo Shi]

Hi all,

I just attempted to run a 0.9b fabfile and ran into some problems
(I'll write them up shortly). I was wondering if there was a 0.9b to
0.9.0 migration guide anywhere?

Thanks for the great tool!

On Wednesday, November 18, 2009, Niklas Lindström <address@hidden> wrote:
> Forgot to cheer and congratulate to the release. Great news and thanks
> for all your work!
>
> Cheers,
> Niklas
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 2:25 AM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> 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:
>>
>>
>> * 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].
>>
>> * 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.
>>
>> * 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!
>>
>> 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 :)
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jeff
>>
>> [1] http://code.fabfile.org/issues/show/64
>>
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