@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@ shut up about stuff I don't care about) to itself (or make an inner function?) followed by a sudo mv call. * Add Paramiko SSHConfig support: it can provide username and port and other options. Look at `man ssh_config` for what else people can put in that file. -* Try to make Fabric threadsafe (and/or not using threads for outputting) +* Try to make Fabric threadsafe (and/or not using threads for outputting) so a +parallel operation mode can work again. * Right now it uses threads and shared state for outputting, and shared state for env/connection/etc stuff. This is probably not threadsafe as-is. * Even if the shared state works OK, the thread use in outputting is kind @@ -93,7 +94,6 @@ laggy. * Possibly allow "aliases" in `env`, i.e. 'user' and 'username' treated as being the same key to limit possible confusion. * See \_AliasDict, possibly roll it back into \_AttributeDict? -* Parallel execution (if it can be done without making things terribly complex again) * Better remote-end prompt detection/passthrough to local user * See pexpect, it's awesome. @@ -105,8 +105,15 @@ I think it only works on local paths as-is?) * Allow persistent environments via context managers, either real (run a bunch of commands in one command string) or fake (put a prefix with e.g. 'cd foo && ' in front of each shell invocation, behind the scenes) + * See settings() and cd() for prior art; cd() in particular would probably + turn into a specific application of this generalized manager, if necessary + (make sure we're consistent with settings(), i.e. always use general + manager, or allow for making some special cases to save a bit of typing) * Strip ANSI colors from remote text, as an option (so I can stop having to do ls --color=never and so on) + * Less necessary once I stopped being an idiot and using --color=auto, but + still useful in cases where user doesn't have that control or, like me, + wasn't fully aware of how to turn it off correctly. * Refactor run/sudo: * many times I want to run a handful of commands as one or the other, or there are call chains (e.g. in contrib and the fabfile) where I have to pass @@ -121,9 +128,6 @@ in 2.0): more SSH functionality * PuSSH: possibly more SSH functionality such as ProxyCommand, etc * Allow find_fabfile/load_fabfile to deal with packages as well as modules. -* Change fabfile loading to move found fabfile directory to front of sys.path -in the case where it's already in sys.path; this prevents any other fabfiles -from stealing the show. * Have all operations capable of performing a "dry run" wherein they do not actually change anything, but simply return the empty string or other appropriate empty values. @@ -131,6 +135,12 @@ appropriate empty values. * Can be used in conjunction with --debug to see the real commands to run * Would be difficult to fully "test" user code relying on output from server, without users doing their own mocking. + * How high/low to do dry running? + * Just "would do run(foo), then sudo(bar), then run(biz)" and never + enter the methods? + * or enter the methods, which allows for displaying transformations + (i.e. "real" commands being run, like what debug shows; "real" paths + after tilde expansion and so on, in put/get; etc) * Allow global override of the `pty` behavior currently implemented as kwargs for run/sudo. (And then note this in any FAQs mentioning tty problems!) * Extend globbing to `get`; with `put` we can leverage local Python libs, but TODO 084076e196b4c0cc5ba417122d5e3e45e6f7ebb1 Jeff Forcier jeff@bitprophet.org http://github.com/karmazilla/fabric/commit/6f78a4befd58abea00c17e7c3f440ba30eeeb096 6f78a4befd58abea00c17e7c3f440ba30eeeb096 2009-07-02T21:06:04-07:00 2009-07-02T21:06:04-07:00 Big TODO update. Removed completed items, merged some others, clarified yet others. At this point, not seeing anything blocking a feature freeze in prep for 0.9 beta 1. 138c2f303ed7521eb7a797c38d90cf552dff95ed Jeff Forcier jeff@bitprophet.org