Re: [Fab-user] Patch for prompt and require

[Christian Vest Hansen]

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 4:23 AM, Jeff Forcier <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I've accepted your changes to require() but I'm not sure about the
>> prompt() changes. I think prompt is getting a little complex/hard to
>> understand.
>
> One item I added to TODO in my branch is to overhaul prompting in
> general (both Fabric prompting the user for Fabric values, as well as
> Fabric "passing through" prompts it is given on the remote end) so
> hopefully sometime I'll be able to take a stab at that, and ensure
> that it is organized/documented so as to not be too difficult to
> use/grok.

Sounds like you have given this some thinking already :)

>> These would be the first decorators intended for use in fabfiles.
>> You/we will have to think about how they are going to interoperate
>> with the list and help commands.
>
> Can you explain this further? My branch has two for-fabfiles
> decorators and they seem to work fine.

Oh, I didn't know. What I meant was; I'm fond of the built-in help
system, so I'd if you can fabric to list the decorators it exposes and
detailed usage help for each.

>
> -Jeff
>



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Venlig hilsen / Kind regards,
Christian Vest Hansen.