Scriptharness 0.1.0 Release Notes¶
| date: | 2015/05/25 |
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This is the first scriptharness release.
What’s New¶
- python 2.7, 3.2-3.5 support
- unicode support on 2.7 (3.x gets it for free)
- no more mixins
- no more query_abs_dirs()
- argparse instead of optparse
- virtualenv instead of clone-and-run
- because of virtualenv model, requests instead of urllib2
- LoggingDict to allow and log config changes
- LogMethod decorator to add simple logging to any function or method
- ScriptManager object like logging.Manager
- Action functions can be module-level functions
- multiple Script model, though running multiple Scripts is currently untested
- choice of StrictScript for ReadOnlyDict usage
- all preflight and postflight functions are listeners
- quickstart.py for faster learning curve
- readthedocs + full docstrings for faster learning curve
- 100% coverage
- pylint 10.00
Known Issues¶
- run_command() and get_output_from_command() are not yet ported
- test_config.py hardcodes port 8001
- 1 broken test on Windows python 2.7: cgi httpserver call downloads cgi script
- 5 disabled tests on Windows python 3.4
- windows console doesn’t print or input Unicode http://bugs.python.org/issue1602
- subprocess failing in GUI applications on Windows http://bugs.python.org/issue3905
- currently only one way to enable/disable actions: –actions