minitage 2.0.66

A meta package-manager to deploy projects on UNIX Systemes sponsored by Makina Corpus.

Companies

• Planet Makina Corpus
• Contact us

Authors

• Mathieu Le Marec - Pasquet <kiorky@cryptelium.net>

Contributors

The whole doc is not there

but on http://www.minitage.org

The installation instructions are there:

Automatic installation

See http://www.minitage.org/installation.html

Using virtualenv (deprecated)

See http://www.minitage.org/installation_old.html

Syncing packages

See http://www.minitage.org/usecases/using_minimerge.html#update-your-minilays

Integrate your existing python project base on buildout

See http://www.minitage.org/usecases/maintain_project.html

2.0.66 (2013-06-22)

• handle setuptools 0.7
• add mr.developer support to auto update buildout packages prior to reinstallation
• more github consistant code for retry download

2.0.65 (2013-06-02)

• offline bootstrap better support
• github retry policy to handle static fetch problems

2.0.64 (2013-05-13)

• minitagify buildouts upgrade

2.0.63 (2013-04-14)

• Fix regression in download

2.0.62 (2013-04-14)

• better download errors

2.0.61 (2013-04-02)

• buildout maker fix

2.0.60 (2013-04-02)

• fix namespace problem

2.0.58 (2013-04-02)

• doc

2.0.57 (2013-04-02)

• fix bug in buildout maker

2.0.54 (2013-04-01)

• test layer bugfix

2.0.53 (2013-04-01)

• Documentation

2.0.51 (2013-04-01)

• minitage.core is not tied to sys.prefix, IOW you can install it in any location, and the config file will be resolved relative to the minimerge script.
• QA release, now you have test statuses on travis ci.
• tests are now based on plone.testing

2.0.50 (2013-03-28)

• Better offline bootstrap assumptions
• minitagify script installs now minilay with a symlink
• better buildout maker (offline mode)
• returns a correct exit code (before we intentionnaly hide an error)

2.0.49 (2013-03-28)

• offline mode, enhanced

2.0.48 (2013-03-25)

• Better minitagify template (travis, qa)

2.0.47 (2013-03-23)

• Better minitagify script

2.0.46 (2013-03-16)

• try to detect buildout infra < 1 & run a buildout1 boostrap in case

2.0.45 (2013-02-13)

• buildout 2.0 second round

2.0.44 (2013-02-13)

• buildout 2.0 first pass

2.0.43 (2012-09-12)

• better update support

2.0.42 (2012-09-12)

• trigger pil rebuild

2.0.41 (2012-09-11)

• Fix pil version

2.0.40 (2012-08-28)

• Fix minitage base buildouts

2.0.39 (2012-08-28)

• doc

2.0.37 (2012-08-28)

• doc

2.0.36 (2012-08-28)

• Fix minitage base buildouts

2.0.35 (2012-08-28)

• fix category minibuild in minitagify

2.0.34 (2012-08-28)

• Added the minitagify command see: this doc

2.0.33 (2012-05-09)

• revert Download helper subdir patch and handle it in buildout recipes

2.0.32 (2012-05-06)

• Fix all tests
• Dowload helper now downloads in downloadcache/netloc+urlpath/filename

2.0.31 (2012-03-26)

• py27 deepcopy bugfix

2.0.30 (2012-03-24)

• support py27
• Force run buildout in upgrade mode for dependencies and eggs packages

2.0.29 (2012-03-05)

• handle pil migration

2.0.28 (2012-01-23)

• Support for in place git branches [kiorky]

2.0.27 (2011-02-25)

• proper release

2.0.24

• fix bug in pretend
• move to github
• add mercurial to dependencies to facillitate buildout integration
• add python versions for pretend and 'eggs' packages
• rebuild 'eggs' packages only if they need to be (markers are now in place for the particular python version)
• remove useless mercurial dep

2.0

FEATURES;

• Auto Update system. When minimerge upgrade (easy_install -U), we have now the infrastructure to run update callbacks.
• Now minibuilds have revisions, this can facilitate their reinstallation as reverse dependencies
• give means to select the python to build against for python modules (--all-python-versions or specify python to use along with the package (minimerge -pv foo python-2.4)
• force eggs category reinstallation
• add an only dependencies switch to buld only dependencies
• win32 compatibility (first rush, alpha quality)
• add replace/per/os/dependencies mecanism in minibuilds
• allow minibuild names with only major as version

BUGS:

• support symlink in remove_path (API)
• enhance remove_path function
• fix a bug in bootstrapping buildout
• rewrite fetchers
• improve proxy handling
• fix some tests
• make parts shut up
• test incomplete downloads and redownload them (package level)
• make minibuild name more permissive
• fix bug in new checkouts
• fix a bug insde the get_from_cache helper when a fragmented url is used and the upstream server does not understand them
• add a special exception for search_latest when error happen.
• fake user agent in urlopen calls to prevent mad sysadmins restrictions on python useragent.
• explicit error when the buildout configuration file is not there
• use setuptools package_index.download helper funtion instead of directly urllib2 to avoid sourceforge download errors

1.0.19

• distribute fix

1.0.18

• remove deprecationwarning

1.0.17

• remove deprecationwarning

1.0.16

• oups, left print

1.0.15

• let the default minilay be at lower priority among all

1.0.14

• desactivating updates manager for more tests.

-> 1.0.13

• Minitage now allows binaries to be used instead of compiling programs, in the gentoo -k way.
• Minitage has now also an update manager to run udpate functions on upgrade.

1.0.5

• bugfix on url md5sum fragments

1.0.4

• make conditionnal weither we are offline or not the download in the get_from_cache function.

1.0.0 -> 1.0.3

• x64 enlightments
• add optionnal force switch to the download cache function

1.0

• some API adds like 'search_latest' and 'which'
• bugfix in interfaces for configuration handling
• buildout maker can be given an optionnal config to build
• code stabilization and sync with other minitage components
• official documentation on http://www.minitage.org

0.32

• Fetch by default over http

0.4.30

• Bind buildout newest mode with -u option

0.4.30

• do not delete directories but overwrite when the package src uri change.

0.4.29

• Make minitage lives on git

0.4.28

• Make minitage git aware both in recipes and in core.

0.4.27

• force setuptools version

0.4.26

• bugfix on common functions (API)

0.4.21

• quiet mode is now optionnal are there are numerous bugs with it.

0.4.8

• Maintenance release

  • testruner
  • buildoutified
  • some refactor and code cleanings
  • logging is now better handled and your minimerge sessions will be as quiet as possible.

0.4.5

• Bug in fetchers (not critical ...)

0.4.4

• Add an option (-f)

  • when set : fetch all before build
  • when not set : fetch and build each package one after another

0.4.2

• Remove the category check

0.4.2

• Remove the backtrace from the launcher when minimerge fails

0.4.1

• Release version

0.4_alpha12

• Fix scm type validator

0.4_alpha11

• bzr DVCS integration

0.4_alpha10

• Add support for variables in minibuilds setted in minitage configuration file. Use $name in minibuilds and set it in the [minitage.variables] section.

0.4_alpha9

• reinforce buildout code

0.4_alpha8

• restore previous version scheme

a0.4_alpha5

• add mercurial explicit dependency

0.4_alpha4

• remove old minilay

0.4_alpha1

This is a pre release, minitage is working. But it is not empty from bugs. Feel free to give your feedback :)

• Minimerge totally rewritten in python
• Support for conditionnal dependencies toward python version
• Support for eggs in addition of site-packages added to the PYTHONPATH
• Support for conditionnal (OS) dependencies
• Lot of improvments on error handling
• Logging mode
• Configuration via a file is now possible

up to 0.3

• not public, nothing to see there.