Re: [Fab-user] Fabric 0.0.6

[Sergey Kirillov]

No, setuptools is not a part of standard python distribution, although a 
lot of systems have it installed (easy_install is a part of setuptools).

You can find more here http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/setuptools


Christian Vest Hansen wrote:
> Can setuptools be expected to be part of any normal python 2.5
> installation out there? If so, why isn't it listed here:
> http://docs.python.org/modindex.html ?
>
> On 6/24/08, Sergey Kirillov <address@hidden> wrote:
>   
> > Hi Christian,
> >
> >  Password-less sudo and key-based authentication works fine
> >
> >  Can you add one minor improvement -- use setuptools instead of distutils.
> > With setuptools I can execute 'sudo setup.py develop' on Git working copy
> > and test new releases before installing them into /usr/lib/python.
> >
> >  Patch is trivial:
> >  ---
> >  diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
> >  index c89bf30..0dbceee 100644
> >  --- a/setup.py
> >  +++ b/setup.py
> >  @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> >  #!/usr/bin/env python
> >
> >  -from distutils.core import setup
> >  +from setuptools import setup
> >
> >  setup(
> >     name = 'Fabric',
> >
> >  ---
> >  Best wishes,
> >  Sergey
> >
> >
> >  Christian Vest Hansen wrote:
> >
> >     
> > > Fabric 0.0.6 has been released.
> > >
> > > It's a pretty small release and most of the changes in the git log are
> > > related to the website, which has gotten some new material in the
> > > tutorial, some layout fixing for Firefox, plus some standards
> > > compliance issues have been fixed.
> > >
> > > For Fabric itself, here's what's changed:
> > >  + Nummerous small spelling mistakes has been corrected.
> > >  + Python 2.4 compatibility issue with str.partition has been fixed.
> > >  + Support for password-less sudo.
> > >  + Support for key-based authentication has been improved.
> > >  + New getAny() operation that lets you specify a list of variable
> > > names and get the first value that exist.
> > >
> > > Also, I got an AUTHORS file now, and credit goes to Jeff Forcier for
> > > some spelling and PEP-8 corrections.
> > >
> > > Oh! One more thing: I've taken some steps to (hopefully) improve the
> > > installation process with easy_install - it'd be real nice if someone
> > > could try out both the upgrade procedure and a clean install to see if
> > > it all works now.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >       
> >     
>
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