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

0.1.0 (2008-04-14)¶

initial release