Changes
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 cacl_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 aphabetical 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 wirh 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 dumbdmb 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 errror 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
