fades 3

[Facundo Batista]

Hello all,

We're glad to announce the release of fades 3.

fades, a FAst DEpendencies for Scripts, is a system that automatically
handles the virtualenvs in the simple cases normally found when
writing scripts or simple programs.

It will automagically create a new virtualenv (or reuse a previous
created one), installing the necessary dependencies, and execute
your script inside that virtualenv.

You only need to execute the script with fades (instead of Python) and
also mark the required dependencies. More details here:

    https://github.com/PyAr/fades/


What's new in this release?

- You can use it with different interpreter versions! Just pass
  --python=python2 or whatever pleases you.

- Dependencies can be specified through command line: no need to touch the
  script for a quick test, just specify the needed dependency with "-d".

- Interactive mode: fastest way to try a new lib! Just do

    fades -d <dependency>

  and it will open an interactive interpreter inside a venv with that dep.

- It supports getting the arguments from a shellbang. So, you can create
  a script and put on top of it something like:

     #!/usr/bin/env fades -d <dependency> --python=python2.7

- It can parse requirements from a file. No need for further changes if
  you already have a requirements.txt file: just indicate it with "-r".

- If the repo is not specified, defaults to PyPI, which means cleaner and
  simpler code.

- There's a built in database for typical package name conversion: this way
  you can mark with fades an "import bs4" even if that's not really the name
  of the package in PyPI.

- Other minor bugfixes and improvements


To get it:

- For debian/ubuntu you have a .deb here:

    http://taniquetil.com.ar/fades/fades-latest.deb

- Install it in Arch is very simple:

    yaourt -S fades

- Using pip if you want:

    pip3 install fades

- You can always get the multiplatform tarball and install it in the
  old fashion way:

    wget http://taniquetil.com.ar/fades/fades-latest.tar.gz
    tar -xf fades-latest.tar.gz
    cd fades-*
    sudo ./setup.py install


Help / questions:

- You can ask any question or send any recommendation or request
  to the mailing list.

    http://listas.python.org.ar/mailman/listinfo/fades

- Also, you can open an issue here (please do if you find any problem!).

    https://github.com/PyAr/fades/issues/new


Thanks in advance for your time!




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.    Facundo

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