News: Paste Script

3.7.0 (2025-01-22)

  • Open, read and write files in binary mode in copydir.py.

  • Fix locking for modern Python.

3.6.0 (2024-04-27)

With version 3.6.0 pastescript development moves to the pasteorg GitHub organization and will be going deeper into maintenance mode unless more active maintainers step forward to take over. “Deeper” in this case means that releases will be much less frequent and patches will only be accepted for security issues or major problems. Current consumers of pastescript should prepare to migrate away to more modern solutions.

3.5.1 (2024-03-15)

  • Be explicit about Python 3 being required.

3.5.0 (2024-03-14)

  • Remove remains of Python 2 in code. Thanks to Alexandre Detiste (a-detiste)

3.4.0 (2024-01-22)

  • Correct working with PasteDeploy >=3. Thanks brondsem.

3.3.0 (2023-01-03)

  • Remove support for Python 2 in tests. It may still work outside tests.

  • Fix homepage link. Thanks to Guillaume Gauvrit (mardiros).

  • Stop using nose to run tests.

  • Run tests in GitHub actions instead of travis CI.

3.2.1 (2021-04-27)

  • Require setuptools in install_requires. Thanks to Tomáš Hrnčiar (hrnciar)

  • Fix tests to run again.

3.2.0 (2019-09-24)

  • Use wsgiserver.WSGIServer instead of wsgiutils.wsgiServer.WSGIServer for Python 3 compatibility.

3.1.0 (2019-03-04)

  • Remove dependency on unittest2.

3.0.0 (2018-11-26)

  • Moved to GitHub.

  • Put into maintenance mode, meaning: critical bugs will be fixed, and support for new versions of Python will be handled, but new features are not being considered.

2.0.2 (2015-05-27)

  • Issue #20: Fix “paster points –list” on Python 3.

  • Fix cgi_server on Python 3.

  • Fix usage of the sort() method on Python 3.

  • Fix grep on Python 3.

2.0.1 (2015-05-26)

  • Fix –help command on Python 3. Patch written by Atsushi Odagiri (aodag).

  • Fix “paster create –template=basic_package test” command on Python 3. Patch written by Atsushi Odagiri (aodag).

  • Fix error when ‘paster create –list-template’ on Python 3. Patch written by FGtatsuro.

  • Create universal wheel package.

2.0 (2015-05-26)

  • Experimental Python 3 support.

  • six module is now required.

  • Drop support of Python 2.5 and older

1.7.5

  • Import CherryPy directly instead of including its server inline in the paste.script package. You must install CherryPy before using egg:PasteScript#cherrypy

1.7.4.2

  • 1.7.4 had package release problems, was reverted; 1.7.4.1 also had package problems.

  • Include special here and __file__ default vars for logging config files, similar to PasteDeploy config loading.

  • Allow Jython to import various bits from paste.script.command and paste.script.copydir without throwing an import error (subprocess module cannot be imported on Jython). This allows PasteScript to work minimally on Jython, although execution will fail for command.run_command and copydir.copydir.

1.7.3

  • CherryPy wsgiserver updated to 3.1.1, fixes a regression in Python 2.5 plus a couple other small fixes.

1.7.2

  • Fix a packaging issue that could cause problems when installing PasteScript.

1.7.1

  • filemaker.py’s FileOp can now handle a tuple as a source_dir argument that should function the same as the _template_dir option for pkg_resources.

  • CherryPy wsgiserver updated to trunk@2063 for Python 2.6 compatibility.

1.7

  • _template_dir now takes a tuple argument, which should be the package name, and the relative location to the package of its template directory. pkg_resources will then be used to load make the templates rather than raw file access making it zip-safe.

  • CherryPy wsgiserver updated to the 3.1.0 release’s.

  • Support Python 2.6.

  • Added experimental support for a quicker paster serve –reload for Jython.

  • Non-Python files in paste/script/templates/ causes an error on 2.6; renamed directory to avoid this.

1.6.3

  • Fixes for paste.script.filemaker

  • A setuptools egg_info.writers entry point is now provided that’s responsible for writing paster_plugins.txt for projects that define a new paster_plugins setup() keyword. paster_plugins.txt will still be created for new projects that need it and lack a paster_plugins setup() keyword, but this is deprecated. Projects defining paster_plugins in setup() should also define a setup_requires setup() keyword including PasteScript.

  • An egg_plugins variable (a list of strings based off the Templates classes’ egg_plugins variables) is now available to paster create templates for the new paster_plugins setup() keyword.

  • PasteScript is no longer included in egg_plugins/paster_plugins.txt by default.

1.6.2

  • Fix SkipTemplate (could raise TypeError: argument 1 must be string or read-only buffer, not None before)

1.6.1 (and 1.6.1.1)

  • Fix paster serve under Windows.

1.6

  • Added commands paster request config.ini URL and paster post config.ini URL < post-body, that allow you to do artificial requests to applications.

  • Check the writability of the pid and log files earlier. This caused particular problems if you started it in daemon mode, and the files weren’t writable. From Chris Atlee.

  • Start the monitor (when using --monitor) after daemonizing, so that paster serve --monitor --daemon works (before it would constantly restart).

  • In Paste Script templates, you can give should_echo=False in variable definitions, and if the user is queried for the variable then the input will not be echoed (as for a password). From Dirceu Pereira Tiegs.

  • Added a method paste.script.appinstall.Installer.template_renderer, which can be used to override template substitution with paster make-config. The function is similar to the same function used with paster create templates.

  • Remove --daemon option from Windows, as it depends on os.fork

  • When using paster create and inserting text with a -*- marker, multi-line text will no longer be reinserted.

  • Improved output when skipping templates with paster create.

  • When starting a server with paster serve --daemon and the pid file exists and describes a running process, do not start another process.

  • Added umask option to egg:PasteScript#flup_fcgi_thread/fork.

  • Deprecate the flup entry points, as flup now has the necessary entry points in its own package.

1.3.6

  • CherryPy wsgiserver updated to the 3.0.2 release’s

  • paster no longer hides pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound error messages describing the target project’s requirements. Aids the somewhat confusing “did you run setup.py develop?” message when it had already been ran, but since then had a requirement added that wasn’t installed.

  • Logging configuration is now read from the config file during paster setup-app.

  • Custom Formatters and Handlers (Handlers outside of the logging module) are now supported in logging configuration files.

1.3.5

  • Initialize logging earlier in the serve command for components that want to utilize it. Patch from Christopher Lenz.

  • Fixed Python 2.3 incompatibility (no string.Template) in paste.script.appinstall.

1.3.4

  • Make sure that when using --monitor or --reload, if the parent monitoring process dies, also kill the subprocess.

  • When using paster serve --log-file, append to the log file (was truncating any previous contents).

  • Read logging information from the server file, using the logging module’s standard configuration format

  • When adding files don’t fail because an svn command fails. Helpful particularly on Windows, when the svn command-line isn’t installed (e.g., using TortoiseSVN).

1.3.3

  • Fixed problem with paster serve on Windows. Also on Windows, fixed issue with executables with spaces in their names (this case requires the win32all module).

  • You can use +dot+ in your project template filenames, specifically so that you can use leading dots in the filename. Usually leading dots cause the file to be ignored. So if you want to have new projects contain a .cvsignore file, you can put a +dot+cvsignore file in your template.

  • Relatedly, +plus+ has been added so you can include pluses.

1.3.2

  • paster was largely broken under Windows; fixed.

1.3.1

  • Fix related to Python 2.5 (when there are errors creating files, you could get infinite recursion under Python 2.5).

  • Use subprocess module in paster serve command. Added --monitor option which will restart the server if it exits.

  • The exe command now does % substitution in keys (e.g., pid_file=%(here)s/paste.pid).

  • Some import problems with Cheetah should be improved.

1.3

  • Fixed an exception being raised when shutting down flup servers using sockets.

  • Fixed the CherryPy 3 WSGI server entry point’s handling of SIGHUP and SIGTERM.

  • The CherryPy wsgiserver is now available at paste.script.wsgiserver (no longer requiring CherryPy to be installed).

  • Added entry point for twisted server.

  • Made paste.script.pluginlib:egg_info_dir work with packages that put the Package.egg-info/ directory in a subdirectory (typically src/).

  • Remove Cheetah requirement. Packages using Cheetah templates should require Cheetah themselves. If you are using paster make-config and you don’t want to use Cheetah, you must add use_cheetah = False to your Installer subclass (it defaults to true for backward compatibility).

  • Make scripts work when there is no setup.py (if you aren’t making a Python/setuptools package).

  • When using paste.script.copydir.copy_dir (as with most paster create templates), you can raise SkipTemplate (or call the skip_template() function) which will cause the template to be skipped. You can use this to conditionally include files.

  • When using paster serve c:/..., it should no longer confuse c: with a scheme (such as config: or egg:).

  • More careful about catching import errors in websetup, so if you have a bug in your app.websetup module it won’t swallow it.

1.1

  • Added a warn_returncode option to Command.run_command, and make ensure_file use this for its svn command.

  • If the svn command-line program isn’t working for you, commands that use ensure_file will continue to work but just with a warning.

  • Removed copyright notice that was accidentally included in new packages created by paster create.

  • Allow variable assignments at the end of paster serve, like paster serve http_port=80; then you can use %(http_port)s in your config files (requires up-to-date Paste Deploy).

  • Allow a package_dir variable so that you can put your package into subdirectories of the base directory (e.g., src/).

  • Changes to the twisted.web2 wrapper (from pythy).

  • Warn when you run paster setup-app and no modules are listed in top_level.txt (which can happen with a newly checked out project).

1.0

  • Added entry point for CherryPy 3’s WSGI server.

  • Fixed paster serve to hide KeyboardInterrupt (CTRL-C) tracebacks in --reload mode.

  • Added template_renderer argument to paste.script.copydir.copydir. This allows you to use arbitrary template languages, instead of just string.Template and Cheetah.

0.9.9

  • egg:PasteScript#test (the paste.script.testapp) now accepts lint and text boolean configuration. lint will turn on paste.lint validation. text will cause it to return a simple text/plain response with the environ, instead of an HTML table.

  • Improvements all around to paster points, plus documentation for existing entry point groups.

0.9.8

  • New projects will now ignore Package.egg-info/dependency_links.txt, just like all the other derivative files in the egg-info directory

  • paster serve --reload was broken on Windows when the Python executable was in a directory with spaces in it. This is probably a bug in the subprocess module.

0.9.7

  • Update to filemaker commands to take optional argument so that when new directories are for a Python package, they will have a __init__.py created as well.

0.9.6

  • Do all variable assignment during package creation up-front, before actually creating the files.

  • Added the egg template variable: provides projects with a safe egg name as generated by setuptools. This should be used for egg-info directories in templates (e.g. +egg+.egg-info instead of +project+.egg-info), and anywhere else the egg name is expected, to prevent errors with project names containing hyphens.

0.9

  • Installer calls websetup.setup_app(command, conf, vars); setup_config() will be deprecated in the future

  • Added copyright information

  • paster serve config.ini#section works now

  • paster make-config/setup-app will read $PASTE_SYSCONFIG to find extra sysconfig.py files.

  • paster create will now query interactively for variables if they aren’t explicitly provided.

0.5

  • If the output directory doesn’t exist when running paster create, do not default to having interactive (confirmation) on.

0.4.2

  • Fixed the Flup FastCGI interface. (There seem to still be problems with forking FastCGI.)

  • The prepare-app command has been renamed make-config

  • Changed the way make-config and setup-app use sysconfig – these are now modules that can define various functions

  • Allow for default config file names

  • Consider config generation that may produce a directory (this case is now generally workable)

  • Allow for multiple config files (specifically with –edit)

  • Give config file generation the variables app_install_uuid and app_install_secret that they can use for their config files

  • Include Ka-Ping Yee’s uuid module in paste.script.util.uuid

  • paster help doesn’t bail when commands can’t be loaded

  • Be a little safer when --edit fails and --setup is provided (don’t automatically set up if the edit seems to have failed)

0.4.1

  • Two small bugfixes, one related to the basic_package template (it included a reference to finddata, which it should not have), and a fix to how the .egg-info directory is determined.

0.4

  • Added points command, for entry-point related queries.

  • paste.deploy config files that start with #!/usr/bin/env paster can make a script into an executable.

  • Improvements to paster serve command:

    • Handle bad PID files better

    • Daemonization is more reliable

    • Allow start, stop, restart instead of just options

  • Improvements to paster create command:

    • Invoked interactively by default (so that you are warned before overwriting files)

  • Added new commands:

    • points for viewing Egg entry point information

    • prepare-app and setup-app for installing web applications

  • Fixed bug in how Egg distributions are loaded.

0.3.1

  • Fixed small bug with running paster serve on Windows. (Small to fix, kept script from running on Windows entirely).

0.3

Initial release.