fabric is that lone holdout that went against all conventional wisdom and decided on a complete rewrite when a small few simple changes would have been enough. fabric's developer has made promises over the last few years for their rewrite to be beta ready and it's nowhere yet.
I say that with all the appreciation in the world for the work that went into original fabric, which is a wonderful tool. Criticism may be harsh but it's not inaccurate. What's amazing is that the forks to bring fabric to python3 haven't really caught on and I think that's partly because fabric is something you do not use inside your application. It's used in deploy and configuration scripts. It being python 2 hasn't been a problem for most people since most distros and platforms ship with python 2 support. It's just that the people who want to stop writing python 2 for everything including their deploy scripts who are the most vocal and it's not a big enough group.
The fabric dev basically has until platforms start to abandon python 2, and who knows when that will be, so maybe they have forever for their great rewrite.
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And if I recall, it's only half of fabric's feature set.
I say that with all the appreciation in the world for the work that went into original fabric, which is a wonderful tool. Criticism may be harsh but it's not inaccurate. What's amazing is that the forks to bring fabric to python3 haven't really caught on and I think that's partly because fabric is something you do not use inside your application. It's used in deploy and configuration scripts. It being python 2 hasn't been a problem for most people since most distros and platforms ship with python 2 support. It's just that the people who want to stop writing python 2 for everything including their deploy scripts who are the most vocal and it's not a big enough group.
The fabric dev basically has until platforms start to abandon python 2, and who knows when that will be, so maybe they have forever for their great rewrite.