Whiskers

"Vibrissae (singular: vibrissa), or whiskers, are specialized hairs (or, in certain bird species, specialized feathers) usually employed for tactile sensation." - Wikipedia

Whiskers is a Pyramid application for storing information about your buildouts. It is intended to use with buildout.sendpickedversions (PyPI, Github) extension.

Reason behind Whiskers

Why? Shortly to automate your workflow.

Think an environment where you're managing tens or hundereds of buildouts - say Plone instances. Most of them have probably almost the same packages and versions. Now you make an critical fix to some custom package and you need to know which buildouts you have to update. Whiskers helps you here by knowing what is required and where.

Installation

Requirements

Python 2.6, 2.7 or 3.3

Pip

virtualenv --no-site-packages -p /path/to/python whiskers
cd whiskers
bin/pip install whiskers
wget https://github.com/pingviini/whiskers/raw/master/production.ini
bin/pserve production.ini

Github

virtualenv --no-site-packages -p /path/to/python whiskers
git clone git://github.com/pingviini/whiskers.git
cd whiskers
python setup.py install
bin/pserve production.ini

Usage

To get some data to Whiskers you should set up buildout.sendpickedversions for your buildouts. Just add following lines to your buildout.cfg: :

[buildout]
extensions = buildout.sendpickedversions
send-data-url = http://localhost:6543
...

Above configuration assumes you have Whiskers running on localhost.

Run buildout and it should say in last lines something like this: :

...
root: Sending data to remote url (http://localhost:6543/)
Added buildout information to Whiskers.

Open web browser and go to http://localhost:6543/buildouts and you should see your buildout data.

Having trouble

Both Whiskers and buildout.sendpickedversions have been updated to work nicely together. Make sure you are using latest version of buildout.sendpickedversions when you've set up Whiskers 1.x.

Older version of buildout.sendpickedversions (0.x) is incompatible with Whiskers 1.x. Same goes to other way too - Whiskers 0.x doesn't work with buildout.sendpickedversions 1.x.

Found a bug

Please kill it (or add a new issue to github). Code is out there for you.

Seriously - I'm more than willing accepting new contributions.