Changes
0.31.1 (2018-03-18)
- Fix #249 reporter bug when using –continue option
- Fix #248 test failures of debian when using GDBM
- Fix #164 get_var fails on multiprocess execution on Windows
- Fix #245 custom clean action takes dry-run into account
0.31.0 (2018-02-25)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: Drop Python 3.3 support
- Fix #171 Passing environment variables to CmdAction
- Fix #184 parametrize script name
- CmdParse now support getting values from OS environment variables
- option seek_file control by ENV var DOIT_SEEK_FILE
- #192 ipython extension uses load_ipython_extension
- #218 clean with option –forget can be used to also forget about cleaned tasks
- Fix strace command (seems strace output was modified)
- Fix #224: use mock from stdlib
- #227: enhancements to info command
- Fix #197: improve error message for invalid clean and teardown task params
- Fix #211: do not display traceback for error when missing file_dep
- Task verbosity has precedence over verbosity from config
- Fix #140: add failure-verbosity. ConsoleReporter, by default,
do not print stderr twice.
- Fix #155: pass selected_tasks to Reporter.initialize()
- Fix #221: do not leak meta arguments to actions kwargs
- Fix #202: help command display option’s name used on config
- Fix #209: fix clean ordering, and following implicit task_deps
- Fix: list of sub-tasks do not include non-related task_dep
- Internal: Removed Task.is_subtask use Task.subtask_of instead
0.30.3 (2017-02-20)
- Revert usage of setuptools environment markers (feature too new)
0.30.2 (2017-02-16)
- Fix dependency on pathlib from PyPi
0.30.1 (2017-02-16)
- Fix GH-#159 KeyError on doit list –status when missing file dependency
- add python3.6 support
0.30.0 (2016-11-22)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: #112 drop python2 compatibility
- GH-#94: option to read output from CmdAction line or byte buffered
- GH-#114: file_dep, targets and CmdAction support pathlib.
- fix GH-#100: make cmd completion output deterministic
- fix GH-#99: positional argument on tasks not specified from cmd-line
- fix GH-#97: list command does not display task-doc for DelayedTask
- when creates is specified
- fix GH-#131: race condition in doit.tools.create_folder
- fix auto command on OS-X systems
- fix GH-#117: Give error when user tries to use equal sign on task name
0.29.0 (2015-08-16)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: revert - result_dep to create an implicit task_dep
- fix GH-#59: command list issue with unicode names
- fix GH-#72: cmd completion escaping of apostrophes in zsh
- fix GH-#74: Task action’s handle python3 callables with keyword only args
- fix GH-#50: Executing tasks in parallel (multi-process) fails on Windows
- fix GH-#71 #92: Better error messages for invalid command line tasks/commands
- fix issue with –always-execute and setup tasks
- GH-#67: multiprocess runner handles closures in tasks (using cloudpickle)
- GH-#58: add DelayedLoader parameter target_regex
- GH-#30: add DelayedLoader parameter creates
- GH-#58: cmd Run add option –auto-delayed-regex
- GH-#24: cmd info add option –status show reason a task is not up-to-date
- GH-#66: cmd auto support custom ( user specified ) commands to be executed
after each task execution
- GH-#61: speed up sqlite3 backend (use internal memory cache)
0.28.0 (2015-04-22)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: signature for custom DB backend changed
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: DoitMain API change
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: Command API change
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: default reporter renamed to console
- GH-#25: Add a reset-dep command to recompute dependencies state
- GH-#22: Allow to customize how file_dep are checked
- GH-#31: Add IPython %doit magic-function loading tasks from its global
namespace
- read configuration options from INI files
- GH-#32 plugin system
- plugin support: COMMAND - add new commands
- plugin support: LOADER - add custom task loaders
- plugin support: REPORTER - add custom reporter for run command
- plugin support: BACKEND - add custom DB persistence backend
- GH-#36 PythonAction recognizes returned TaskError or TaskFailed
- GH-#37 CmdParse support for arguments of type list
- GH-#47 CmdParse support for choices
- fix issue when using unicode strings to specify minversion on python 2
- fix GH-#27 auto command in conjunction with task arguments
- fix GH-#44 Fix the list -s command when result_dep is used
- fix GH-#45 make sure all uptodate checks are executed (no short-circuit)
0.27.0 (2015-01-30)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: drop python 2.6 support
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: removed unmaintained genstandalone script
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: removed runtests.py script and support to run
- tests through setup.py
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: result_dep creates an implicit setup
- (was task_dep)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: GH-#9 getargs creates an implicit result_dep
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: CmdAction would always decode process output
- using errors=’strict’ default changed to replace
- allow task-creators to return/yield Task instances
- fix GH-#14: add support for delayed task creation
- fix GH-#15: auto (linux) inotify also listen for MOVE_TO events
- GH-#4 CmdAction added parameters encoding and decode_error
- GH-#6: loader.task_loader() accepts methods as task creators
0.26.0 (2014-08-30)
- moved development to git/github
- uptodate callable “magic” arguments task and values are now optional
- added command info to display task metadata
- command clean smarter execution order
- remove strace short option -k because it conflicts with run option
- fix zsh tab-completion script when not doit script
- fix #79. Use setuptools and entry_points
- order of yielded tasks is preserved
- #68. pass positional args to tasks
- fix tab-completion on BASH for sub-commands that take file arguments
0.25.0 (2014-03-26)
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE: use function doit.get_initial_workdir()
instead of variable doit.initial_workdir
- DEPRECATED tools.InteractiveAction renamed to tools.LongRunning
- fix: strace raises InvalidCommand instead of using assert
- #28: task uptodate support string to be executed as shell command
- added tools.Interactive for use with interactive commands
- #69: added doit.run() to make it easier to turn a dodo file into executable
- #70: added option “–pdb” to command run
- added option “–single” to command run
- include list of file_dep as an implicit dependency
0.24.0 (2013-11-24)
- reporter added initialize()
- cmd list: added option –template
- dodo.py can specify minimum required doit version with DOIT_CONFIG[‘minversion’]
- #62: added the absolute path from which doit is invoked doit.initial_workdir
- fix #36: added method isatty() to action.Writer
- added command tabcompletion for bash and zsh
- fix #56: allow python actions to have default values for task parameters
0.23.0 (2013-09-20)
- support definition of group tasks using basename without any task
- added task property watch to specific extra files/folders in auto command
- CmdAction support for all arguments of subprocess.Popen, but stdout and stderr
- added command option -k as short for –seek-file
- task action can be specified as a list of strings (executed using subprocess.Popen shell=False)
- fix #60: result of calc_dep only considered if not run yet
- fix #61: test failures involving DBM
- fix: do not allow duplicate task names
0.22.1 (2013-08-04)
- fix reporter output in py3 was being displayed as bytes instead of string
- fix pr#12 read file in chunks when calculating MD5
- fix #54 - remove distribute bootstrapping during installation
0.22.0 (2013-07-05)
- fix #49: skip unicode tests on systems with non utf8 locale
- fix #51: bash completion does not mess up with global COMP_WORDBREAKS
- fix docs spelling and added task to check spelling
- fix #47: Task.options can always be accessed from uptodate code
- fix #45: cmd forget, added option -s/–follow-sub to forget task_dep too
0.21.1 (2013-05-21)
- fix tests on python3.3.1
- fix race condition on CmdAction (affected only python>=3.3.1)
0.21.0 (2013-04-29)
- fix #38: doit.tools.create_folder() raise error if file exists in path
- create_doit_tasks not called for unbound methods
- support execution using “python -m doit”
- fix #33: Failing to clean a group of task(s) with sub-tasks
- python-actions can take a magic “task” parameter as reference to task
- expose task.clean_targets
- tools.PythonInteractiveAction saves “result” and “values”
- fix #40. added option to use threads for parallel running of tasks
- same code base for python 2 & 3 (no need to use tool 2to3)
- add sqlite3 DB backend
- added option to select backend
0.20.0 (2013-01-09)
- added command dumpdb
- added CmdAction.save_out param
- CmdAction support for callable that returns a command string
- BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE getargs for a group task gets a dict where
each key is the name of subtasks (previously it was a list)
- added command strace
- cmd auto run tasks on separate process
- support unicode for task name
0.19.0 (2012-12-18)
- support for doit help <task-name>
- added support to load tasks using create_doit_tasks
- dropped python 2.5 support
0.18.1 (2012-12-03)
- fix bug cmd option –continue not being recognized
0.18.0 (2012-11-27)
- remove DEPRECATED Task.insert_action, result_dep and getargs using strings
- fix #10 –continue does not execute tasks that have failed dependencies
- fix –always-execute does not execute “ignored” tasks
- fix #29 python3 cmd-actions issue
- fix #30 tests pass on all dbm backends
- API to add new sub-commands to doit
- API to modify task loader
- API to make dodo.py executable
- added ZeroReporter
0.17.0 (2012-09-20)
- fix #12 Action.out and Action.err not set when using multiprocessing
- fix #16 fix forget command on gdbm backend
- fix #14 improve parallel execution (better process utilization)
- fix #9 calc_dep create implicit task_dep if a file_dep returned is a also a target
- added tools.result_dep
- fix #15 tools.result_dep supports group-tasks
- DEPRECATE task attribute result_dep (use tools.result_dep)
- DEPRECATE getargs specification using strings (must use 2-element tuple)
- several changes on uptodate
- DEPRECATE Task.insert_action (replaced by Task.value_savers)
- fix #8 clean cleans all subtasks from a group-task
- fix #8 clean added flag –all to clean all tasks
- fix #8 clean when no task is specified set –clean-dep and clean default tasks
0.16.1 (2012-05-13)
- fix multiprocessing/parallel bug
- fix unicode bug on tools.config_changed
- convert tools uptodate stuff to a class, so it can be used with multi-processing
0.16.0 (2012-04-23)
- added task parameter
basename
- added support for task generators yield nested python generators
doit
process return value 3
in case tasks do start executing (reporter is not used)
- task parameter
getargs
take a tuple with 2 values (task_id, key_name)
- DEPRECATE
getargs
being specified as <task_id>.<key_name>
getargs
can take all values from task if specified as (task_id, None)
getargs
will pass values from all sub-tasks if specified task is a group task
- result_dep on PythonAction support checking for dict values
- added
doit.tools.PythonInteractiveAction
0.15.0 (2012-01-10)
- added option –db-file (#909520)
- added option –no-continue (#586651)
- added genstandalone.py to create a standalone
doit
script (#891935)
- fix doit.tools.set_trace to not modify sys.stdout
0.14.0 (2011-11-05)
- added tools.InteractiveAction (#865290)
- bash completion script
- sub-command list: tasks on alphabetical order, better formatting (#872829)
- fix
uptodate
to accept instance methods callables (#871967)
- added command line option
--seek-file
- added
tools.check_unchanged_timestamp
(#862606)
- fix bug subclasses of BaseAction should get a task reference
0.13.0 (2011-07-18)
- performance speed improvements
- fix bug on unicode output when task fails
- ConsoleReporter does not output task’s title for successful tasks that start with an
_
- added
tools.config_changed
(to be used with uptodate
)
teardown
actions are executed in reverse order they were registered
- added
doit.get_var
to get variables passed from command line
- getargs creates implicit “setup” task not a “task_dep”
0.12.0 (2011-05-29)
- fix bug #770150 - error on task dependency from target
- fix bug #773579 - unicode output problems
- task parameter
uptodate
accepts callables
- deprecate task attribute run_once. use tools.run_once on uptodate instead
- added doit.tools.timeout
0.11.0 (2011-04-20)
- no more support for python2.4
- support for python 3.2
- fix bug on unicode filenames & unicode output (#737904)
- fix bug when using getargs together with multiprocess (#742953)
- fix for dumbdbm backend
- fix task execution order when using “auto” command
- fix getargs when used with sub-tasks
- fix calc_dep when used with “auto” command
- “auto” command now support verbosity control option
0.10.0 (2011-01-24)
- add task parameter “uptodate”
- add task parameter “run_once”
- deprecate file_dep bool values and None
- fix issues with error reporting for JSON Reporter
- “Reporter” API changes
- “.doit.db” now uses a DBM file format by default (speed optimization)
0.9.0 (2010-06-08)
- support for dynamic calculated dependencies “calc_dep”
- support for user defined reporters
- support “auto” command on mac
- fix installer on mac. installer aware of different python versions
- deprecate ‘dependencies’. use file_dep, task_dep, result_dep.
0.8.0 (2010-05-16)
- parallel execution of tasks (multi-process support)
- sub-command “list” option “–deps”, show list of file dependencies
- select task by wildcard (fnmatch) i.e. test:folderXXX/*
- task-setup can be another task
- task property “teardown” substitute of setup-objects cleanup
- deprecate setup-objects
0.7.0 (2010-04-08)
- configure options on dodo file (deprecate DEFAULT_TASKS)(#524387)
- clean and forget act only on default tasks (not all tasks) (#444243)
- sub-command “clean” option “clean-dep” to follow dependencies (#444247)
- task dependency “False” means never up-to-date, “None” ignored
- sub-command “list” by default do not show tasks starting with an underscore, added option (-p/–private)
- new sub-command “auto”
0.6.0 (2010-01-25)
- improve (speed optimization) of check if file modified (#370920)
- sub-command “clean” dry-run option (-n/–dry-run) (#444246)
- sub-command “clean” has a more verbose output (#444245)
- sub-command “list” option to show task status (-s/–status) (#497661)
- sub-command “list” filter tasks passed as positional parameters
- tools.set_trace, PDB with stdout redirection (#494903)
- accept command line optional parameters passed before sub-command (#494901)
- give a clear error message if .doit.db file is corrupted (#500269)
- added task option “getargs”. actions can use computed values from other tasks (#486569)
- python-action might return a dictionary on success
0.5.1 (2009-12-03)
- fix. task-result-dependencies should be also added as task-dependency to force its execution.
0.5.0 (2009-11-30)
- task parameter ‘clean’ == True, cleans empty folders, and display warning for non-empty folders
- added command line option –continue. Execute all tasks even if tasks fails
- added command line option –reporter to select result output reporter
- added executed-only reporter
- added json reporter
- support for task-result dependency #438174
- added sub-command ignore task
- added command line option –outfile. write output to specified file path
- added support for passing arguments to tasks on cmd line
- added command line option –dir (-d) to set current working directory
- removed dodo-sample sub-command
- added task field ‘verbosity’
- added task field ‘title’
- modified default way a task is printed on console (just show “. name”), old way added to doit.tools.task_title_with_actions
0.4.0 (2009-10-05)
- deprecate anything other than a boolean values as return of python actions
- sub-cmd clean (#421450)
- remove support for task generators returning action (not documented behavior)
- setup parameter for a task should be a list - single value deprecated (#437225)
- PythonAction support ‘dependencies’, ‘targets’, ‘changed’ parameters
- added tools.create_folder (#421453)
- deprecate folder-dependency
- CmdActions reference to dependencies, targets and changed dependencies (#434327)
- print task description when printing through doit list (#425811)
- action as list of commands/python (#421445)
- deprecate “action” use “actions”
0.3.0 (2009-08-30)
- added subcommand “forget” to clear successful runs status (#370911)
- save run results in text file using JSON. (removed dbm)
- added support for DEFAULT_TASKS in dodo file
- targets md5 is not checked anymore. if target exist, task is up-to-date. it also supports folders
- cmd line sub-commands (#370909)
- remove hashlib dependency on python 2.4
- sub-cmd to create dodo template
- cmd-task supports a list of shell commands
- setup/cleanup for task (#370905)
0.2.0 (2009-04-16)
- docs generated using sphinx
- execute once (dependency = True)
- group task
- support python 2.4 and 2.6
- folder dependency