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+docs/_*

README

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-FABRIC README.
+Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline
+deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH
+protocol. It provides tools for running arbitrary shell commands (either as a
+normal login user, or via ``sudo``), uploading and downloading files, and so
+forth. 
 
-Fabric is a simple pythonic remote deployment tool. 
+Typical use involves defining a "fabfile" (a Python module) containing one or
+more functions or tasks which may then be executed by the ``fab`` command-line
+tool. Fabric provides extra functionality related to this mode of use, such as
+prompting for user input, ensuring certain variables are present in order for
+tasks to run, and specifying which host or hosts a specific task connects to by
+default.
 
-It is designed to upload files to, and run shell commands on, a number of
-servers in parallel or serially. These commands are grouped in tasks (regular
-python functions) and specified in a 'fabfile.'
-
-This is called remote automation, and the primary use case is deploying
-applications to multiple similar hosts.
-
-Although it is easier to automate when the target hosts are similar, it is not
-a requirement and Fabric has features for working with heterogeneous hosts as
-well.
-
-Once installed, you can run `fab help` to learn more about how to use Fabric.
-
-If you want to make changes to the Fabric source code, then please see the
-guide lines located here: http://www.nongnu.org/fab/hacking.html
+Fabric may also be used as a standalone library, so that other Python programs
+needing a simple API on top of SSH or SCP may import and utilize specific
+pieces of functionality.

docs/Makefile

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+# Makefile for Sphinx documentation
+#
+
+# You can set these variables from the command line.
+SPHINXOPTS    =
+SPHINXBUILD   = sphinx-build
+PAPER         =
+
+# Internal variables.
+PAPEROPT_a4     = -D latex_paper_size=a4
+PAPEROPT_letter = -D latex_paper_size=letter
+ALLSPHINXOPTS   = -d _build/doctrees $(PAPEROPT_$(PAPER)) $(SPHINXOPTS) .
+
+.PHONY: help clean html dirhtml pickle json htmlhelp qthelp latex changes linkcheck doctest
+
+help:
+	@echo "Please use \`make <target>' where <target> is one of"
+	@echo "  html      to make standalone HTML files"
+	@echo "  dirhtml   to make HTML files named index.html in directories"
+	@echo "  pickle    to make pickle files"
+	@echo "  json      to make JSON files"
+	@echo "  htmlhelp  to make HTML files and a HTML help project"
+	@echo "  qthelp    to make HTML files and a qthelp project"
+	@echo "  latex     to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter"
+	@echo "  changes   to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items"
+	@echo "  linkcheck to check all external links for integrity"
+	@echo "  doctest   to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)"
+
+clean:
+	-rm -rf _build/*
+
+html:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b html $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/html
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in _build/html."
+
+dirhtml:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b dirhtml $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/dirhtml
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished. The HTML pages are in _build/dirhtml."
+
+pickle:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b pickle $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/pickle
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can process the pickle files."
+
+json:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b json $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/json
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can process the JSON files."
+
+htmlhelp:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b htmlhelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/htmlhelp
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can run HTML Help Workshop with the" \
+	      ".hhp project file in _build/htmlhelp."
+
+qthelp:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b qthelp $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/qthelp
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; now you can run "qcollectiongenerator" with the" \
+	      ".qhcp project file in _build/qthelp, like this:"
+	@echo "# qcollectiongenerator _build/qthelp/Fabric.qhcp"
+	@echo "To view the help file:"
+	@echo "# assistant -collectionFile _build/qthelp/Fabric.qhc"
+
+latex:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b latex $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/latex
+	@echo
+	@echo "Build finished; the LaTeX files are in _build/latex."
+	@echo "Run \`make all-pdf' or \`make all-ps' in that directory to" \
+	      "run these through (pdf)latex."
+
+changes:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b changes $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/changes
+	@echo
+	@echo "The overview file is in _build/changes."
+
+linkcheck:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b linkcheck $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/linkcheck
+	@echo
+	@echo "Link check complete; look for any errors in the above output " \
+	      "or in _build/linkcheck/output.txt."
+
+doctest:
+	$(SPHINXBUILD) -b doctest $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) _build/doctest
+	@echo "Testing of doctests in the sources finished, look at the " \
+	      "results in _build/doctest/output.txt."

docs/api.rst

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+===========
+Lol the API
+===========
+
+.. automodule:: fabric.main
+    :members:

docs/conf.py

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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Fabric documentation build configuration file, created by
+# sphinx-quickstart on Sat Apr 25 14:53:36 2009.
+#
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import sys, os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#sys.path.append(os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
+# coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
+extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc']
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'Fabric'
+copyright = u'2009, Christian Vest Hansen and Jeffrey E. Forcier'
+
+# The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for
+# |version| and |release|, also used in various other places throughout the
+# built documents.
+#
+# The short X.Y version.
+version = '0.9'
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
+release = '0.9a'
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of documents that shouldn't be included in the build.
+#unused_docs = []
+
+# List of directories, relative to source directory, that shouldn't be searched
+# for source files.
+exclude_trees = ['_build']
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
+default_role = 'obj'
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+#add_module_names = True
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+#show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+#modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  Major themes that come with
+# Sphinx are currently 'default' and 'sphinxdoc'.
+html_theme = 'default'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = []
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon = None
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+#html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#html_use_modindex = True
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+#html_use_index = True
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# If nonempty, this is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = ''
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'Fabricdoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output --------------------------------------------------
+
+# The paper size ('letter' or 'a4').
+#latex_paper_size = 'letter'
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+#latex_font_size = '10pt'
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
+latex_documents = [
+  ('index', 'Fabric.tex', u'Fabric Documentation',
+   u'Jeff Forcier', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+#latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+#latex_use_parts = False
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#latex_preamble = ''
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#latex_use_modindex = True

docs/development.rst

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+===========
+Development
+===========
+
+lol

docs/downloads.rst

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+=========
+Downloads
+=========
+
+This page contains a list of all current and prior Fabric releases, as well as
+download links for most recent releases.
+
+For installation information, please see the :doc:`installation` page.
+
+For information on obtaining the source code / development version of Fabric,
+please see the :doc:`development` page.
+
+
+Latest stable release
+---------------------
+
+The latest stable release of Fabric is 0.9a.
+
+You may download a gzipped tarfile archive :download:`here <../tgz/fabric-0.9a.tgz>`.
+
+Previous stable releases
+------------------------
+
+The following list contains all Fabric releases created since this
+documentation system was generated (and thus represented in the
+various "New in version *X*" or "Changed in version *Y*" notes):
+
+* None yet!
+
+Older releases
+--------------
+
+Prior to being rewritten and moving to the current documentation setup, Fabric
+went through a number of older releases, documented here for posterity:
+
+* 0.1.1
+* 0.1.0
+* 0.0.9
+* 0.0.8
+* 0.0.7
+* 0.0.6
+* 0.0.5
+* 0.0.4
+* 0.0.3
+* 0.0.2
+* 0.0.1