Re: [Fab-user] Any interest in extension to support getting things from source control?

[Steve Steiner (listsin)]

On Oct 6, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> While it's not that hard to just run the commands for source control
> systems from within a fabfile, is there any interest in having some
> actual support for pulling files from source control?  I'm looking at
> using fabric for some deployment tasks as I'd rather not introduce
> ruby into our environment for capistrano; not to mention some of the
> rails-isms of capistrano seem to make it less than ideal for my
> purposes.

Since Fabric lets you write your own commands, I'm not sure what  
having "actual support" would mean...

I think "pulling files from source control" is a slippery slope since  
it would mean incorporating something like http://pypi.python.org/pypi/uvc/0.3 
.

I think this type of thing is best left out of a product like Fabric  
or, next thing you know, it'll sprout a mail reader.

S