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@@ -1,14 +1,74 @@ NEWS for cliapp =============== -Version UNRELEASED +Version 1.20130313 ------------------ +* Add `cliapp.Application.compute_setting_values` method. This allows + the application to have settings with values that are computed after + configuration files and the command line are parsed. +* Cliapp now logs the Python version at startup, to aid debugging. +* `cliapp.runcmd` now logs much less during execution of a command. The + verbose logging was useful while developing pipeline support, but has + now not been useful for months. +* More default settings and options have an option group now, making + `--help` output prettier. +* The `--help` output and the output of the `help` subcommand now only + list summaries for subcommands. The full documentation for a subcommand + can be seen by giving the name of the subcommand to `help`. +* Logging setup is now more overrideable. The `setup_logging` method + calls `setup_logging_handler_for_syslog`, + `setup_logging_handler_for_syslog`, or + `setup_logging_handler_to_file`, and the last one calls + `setup_logging_format` and `setup_logging_timestamp` to create the + format strings for messages and timestamps. This allows applications + to add, for example, more detailed timestamps easily. +* The process and system CPU times, and those of the child processes, + and the process wall clock duration, are now logged when the memory + profiling information is logged. +* Subcommands added with `add_subcommand` may now have aliases. + Subcommands defined using `Application` class methods named `cmd_*` + cannot have aliases. +* Settings and subcommands may now be hidden from `--help` and `help` + output. New option `--help-all` and new subcommand `help-all` show + everything. +* cliapp(5) now explains how `--generate-manpage` is used. Thanks to + Enrico Zini for the suggestion. +* New function `cliapp.ssh_runcmd` for executing a command remotely + over ssh. The function automatically shell-quotes the argv array + given to it so that arguments with spaces and other shell meta-characters + work over ssh. +* New function `cliapp.shell_quote` quotes strings for passing as shell + arguments. +* `cliapp.runcmd` now has a new keyword argument: `log_error`. If set to + false, errors are not logged. Defaults to true. + +Bug fixes: + +* The process title is now set only if `/proc/self/comm` exists. + Previously, on the kernel in Debian squeeze (2.6.32), setting the + process title would fail, and the error would be logged to the + terminal. Reported by William Boughton. +* A setting may no longer have a default value of None. + +Version 1.20121216 +------------------ + +* Options in option groups are now included in manual page SYNOPSIS and + OPTIONS sections. * `--log=syslog` message format improvement by Daniel Silverstone. No longer includes a timestamp, since syslog adds it anyway. Also, the process name is now set on Linux. * Make the default subcommand argument synopsis be an empty string, instead of None. Reported by Sam Thursfield. +* Meliae memory dumping support has been fixed. Reported by Joey Hess. +* Memory profiling reports can now be done at minimum intervals in + seconds, rather than every time the code asks for them. This can + reduce the overhead of memory profiling quite a lot. +* If there are any subcommands, cliapp now adds a subcommand called `help`, + unless one already exists. +* For every boolean setting foo, there will no be a --no-foo option to be + used on the command line. Version 1.20120929 ------------------ |