ayrton 0.8.1.0

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I'll keep this short. During the weekend I found a bug in ayrton. I fixed it in develop, and decided to make a release with it, because it was kind of a showstopper. It was the first time I decided to use ayrton for a oneliner. It was this one:

ayrton -c "rm(f=True, v=True, locate('.xvpics', _out=Capture))"

See, ayrton's native support for filenames with spaces makes it a perfect replacement for find and xargs and tools like that. That command simply finds all the files or directories called like .xvpics using locate and removes them. There is a little bit of magic where locate's output becomes rm's arguments, but probably not magic enough: _out=Capture has to be specified. We'll probably fix that in the near future.

So, enjoy the new release. It just fixes a couple of bugs, one of them directly related to this oneliner. Here's the changelog:

  • The 'Release From The Bus' release.
  • Bugfix release.
  • Argv should not be created with an empty list.
  • Missing dependencies.
  • Several typos.
  • Fix for _h().
  • Handle paramiko exceptions.
  • Calling ayrton -c <script> was failing because the file name was not properly (f|b)aked.
  • ayrton --version didn't work!

Get it on github or pypi!

Meanwhile, a little about its future. I have been working on ayrton on and off. Right now I'm gathering energy to modify pypy's Python parser so it supports py3.6's formatted string literals. With this I can later update ayrton's parser, which is based on pypy's. A part of it has been done, but then I run out of gas. I think FSLs are perfect for ayrton in its aim to replace shell script languages. In other news, there's a nasty remote() bug that I can't pin down. These two things might mean that there won't be a significant release for a while.