[Fab-user] Bugfix releases

[Jeff Forcier]

Happy post-winter-solstice holiday season, folks!

Just pushed out 1.5.5, 1.6.4 (which is an oops, 1.6.3 never existed.
Meh!), 1.7.1 and 1.8.1. All include a fix to the gateway feature not
working w/ password auth; 1.7.1/1.8.1 have a bunch of other fixes too.

* http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.5/changelog.html#id1
* http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.6/changelog.html#id1
* http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.7/changelog.html#1.7.1
* http://docs.fabfile.org/en/1.8/changelog.html#1.8.1

Movement on Fab and Paramiko have been quiet as I've focused on
support/doc projects lately in prep for new static sites/blogs and
spreading Fab-focused features (e.g. changelog) to more projects.

That's mostly done, so early 2014 will see:

* A more useful fabfile.org, paramiko.org, pyinvoke.org etc
* Catch-up on unread notifications in those projects (triage + more
feature/bugfix releases)
* Fabric 2 alpha groundbreaking

Thanks,
Jeff

[Thomas Güttler]

Post by Jeff Forcier
Happy post-winter-solstice holiday season, folks!

Thank you. You hope you had a happy holiday.

Post by Jeff Forcier
....
* Fabric 2 alpha groundbreaking

I had a look at the roadmap:

http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/roadmap.html

but could not find an answer to my questions:

Will future versions allow to run python scripts on the remote site?
Or somehow "feel" more python than remote shell scripting?

I know that I can put() a temporary python file to the remote site, and then run('python ...').
I understand that not all remote machines have python available (example a remote embedded box
which just runs busybox). But in my context all remote machines have python.

Thank you for Fabric,

Thomas

[Jeff Forcier]

Hey Thomas,

When looking for specific features it's best to search the issues on
Github, the roadmap is *very* high level :)

The ticket you'd be interested in is this one:
https://github.com/fabric/fabric/issues/237

Briefly, it's something that is a "nice to have" feature and when
Fabric 2 gets moving we'll try to leave things 'open' so the feature
can be implemented easily and without a lot of required changes.

Best,
Jeff

Post by Thomas Güttler

Post by Jeff Forcier
Happy post-winter-solstice holiday season, folks!

Thank you. You hope you had a happy holiday.

Post by Jeff Forcier
....
* Fabric 2 alpha groundbreaking

http://docs.fabfile.org/en/latest/roadmap.html
Will future versions allow to run python scripts on the remote site?
Or somehow "feel" more python than remote shell scripting?
I know that I can put() a temporary python file to the remote site, and then
run('python ...').
I understand that not all remote machines have python available (example a
remote embedded box
which just runs busybox). But in my context all remote machines have python.
Thank you for Fabric,
Thomas