ANN: yolk 0.4.1

[Dog Walker]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Rob Cakebread <rob at cakebread.info> wrote:
>
> yolk 0.4.1 has been released. This is mainly a bugfix release.
>
> Changes:
>
>  * 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
>
> What is yolk?
> =============
>
> yolk is a command-line client and library for querying installed Python packages on your system and packages in The Python Package Index (PyPI).
>
> http://tools.assembla.com/yolk
>
> Features:
>
>  * 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
>
> yolk uses a setuptools-based plugin system.
>
> Third-party plugins
> ===================
>
>  * yolk-portage - Shows which packages were installed via Gentoo Linux's package manager and which were installed directly via setuptools/distutils.
>
> Applications based on yolklib
> =============================
>
>  * 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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