December, 2011 | Terra Incognita

Python

Announce: Stallion v0.2 released !

I just tagged and released the v0.2 version of the Stallion. In the change log (Github project page), you can see that a lot of bugs were fixed and some new features were introduced in this release. I added compatibility with almost all Python 2.x versions, PyPy 1.7+ (and probably older versions too), I also fixed the compatibility with the Internet Explorer browser, now you should be able to use Stallion with Chrome, Firefox and IE.

The most important feature introduced is the global checking for updates (a lot of people requested it):

The new checking is under the menu “PyPI Repository”. Another new feature is the refactoring on the visual appearance of the package classifiers:

Some small visual enhancements were also introduced, like the little gray marker next to the selected package:

I hope you liked, I’m looking forward to implement more features as soon as possible, but a new version shouldn’t be released until next year.

Visit the project page at Github to get instructions on how to update or install Stallion.

– Christian S. Perone

15/12/2011 by Christian S. Perone

Python

Announce: ‘Stallion’ – Python Package Manager

I’m happy to announce the first release v.0.1 of the Stallion project. Stallion is a visual Python package manager compatible with Python 2.6 and 2.7 (I still haven’t tested it with Python 2.5).

The motivation behind Stallion is to provide an user friendly visualization with some management features (most of them are still under development) for Python packages installed on your local Python distribution. Stallion is intended to be used specially for Python newcomers.

The project is currently hosted at Github, so feel free to fork, contribute, make suggestion, report bugs, etc.

Installation

All you need to do to install Stallion is to use your favorite Python distribution system, examples:

user@machine:~/$ pip install stallion or user@machine:~/$ easy_install stallion

By doing this on your prompt (Windows/Linux), the pip/setuptools will download and install external dependencies (Flask, Jinja, docutils, etc.).
After installing Stallion, you need to start the local server by using:

user@machine:~/$ python -m stallion.main

And if it’s all ok, Stallion will start the server on localhost only at the port 5000, so all you need to do now is to browse into the URL http://localhost:5000

You can also download install packages from the PyPI repository.