Stallion 0.2

A Python Package Manager interface.

Stallion is a Python Package Manager interface created to provide an “easy-to-use” visual interface for Python newcomers. Today we have many nice distribution utilities like pip, distribute, etc, but we don’t have a nice visual approach with these same goals.

See screenshots at http://pyevolve.sourceforge.net/wordpress/?p=2200

Using Stallion

python -m stallion.main [--help]

Easy to Install

Installing using easy_install:

$ easy_install stallion
$ python -m stallion.main

Upgrading using easy_install:

$ easy_install -U stallion
$ python -m stallion.main

or using pip:

Installing using pip:

$ pip install stallion
$ python -m stallion.main

Upgrading using pip:

$ pip install --upgrade stallion
$ python -m stallion.main

Setting a development environment

$ python setup.py develop
$ python -m stallion.main

Requirements

Stallion uses the following external projects:

Flask (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/flask)

A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja2 and good intentions

Twitter Bootstrap (https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap)

HTML, CSS, and JS toolkit from Twitter

docutils (http://docutils.sourceforge.net/)

Docutils is an open-source text processing system for processing plaintext documentation into useful formats, such as HTML or LaTeX.

Jinja2 (Flask requirement) (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2)

The Jinja2 template engine

Werkzeug (Flask requirement) (https://github.com/mitsuhiko/werkzeug)

A flexible WSGI implementation and toolkit

Simplejson (If you use Python 2.5) (http://pypi.python.org/pypi/simplejson/)

Simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for Python

Compatibility

Stallion is compatible with:

• Python 2.5

• Jython 2.5.2

• Python 2.6

• Python 2.7

• PyPy 1.7 (and possibly older versions too)

Supported browsers

Stallion is compatible with:

• Firefox

• Google Chrome

• Internet Explorer 9 (IE9)

• Safari (not tested yet, let me know if it’s working)

What’s new in release v0.2

Bug fixes

Lot’s of bugs were fixed:

• Unicode problem (https://github.com/perone/stallion/issues/15)

• Python 2.5 compatibility (https://github.com/perone/stallion/issues/12)

• Ignored explicit port (https://github.com/perone/stallion/issues/6)

• Internet Explorer 9 compatibility (https://github.com/perone/stallion/issues/4)

• Jinja2 version dependency (https://github.com/perone/stallion/issues/1)

• Other small fixes

Global checking feature

Many people asked for a global version updates checking, now you have this feature under the menu “PyPI Repository”. This option is going to check updates for all your packages. A new icon will appear on the sidebar packages menu warning in case of a new available update.

Classifiers refactoring

The classifiers of the package are now visually different.

Reporting bug

Open an issue in Github with the traceback. To get the traceback, you’ll have to run Stallion in debugging mode:

$ python -m stallion.main -drvi

License

Copyright 2011 Christian S. Perone

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.

Links

• Project Site (github)