Re: ANN: yolk 0.4.1

[Dog Walker]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Rob Cakebread <rob@cakebread. infowrote:

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yolk 0.4.1 has been released. This is mainly a bugfix release.
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Changes:
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* Added HTTP proxy support for XML-RPC
* -f is now case-insensitive
* -S does not return the entire PyPI index if a package doesn't exist (this was fixed upstream in PyPI)
* Check for integer with -L
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What is yolk?
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yolk is a command-line client and library for querying installed Python packages on your system and packages in The Python Package Index (PyPI).
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http://tools.assembla.com/yolk

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Features:
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* List installed Python packages (all, active, non-active, develpment mode)
* Show which installed packages have updates available on PyPI
* Show all metadata for a package or individual fields, installed or via PyPI
* Show just URLs for source, egg or repository (SVN etc.)
* Show setuptools entrypoints for a module
* All commands available through PyPI's XML-RPC interface
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yolk uses a setuptools-based plugin system.
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Third-party plugins
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* yolk-portage - Shows which packages were installed via Gentoo Linux's package manager and which were installed directly via setuptools/distutils.
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Applications based on yolklib
=============== ==============
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* g-pypi - Creates ebuilds for Gentoo Linux by querying PyPI
* qyolk - GUI for yolk in QT
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I tried to download yolk using PyPi Browser and received a 4KB tarball
with only readme files and a setup.py, and Ark stated the archive was
"crap", formatwise. My visit to yolk's web didn't yield a link for
downloading.

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