Changes

0.24.0

• 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