From 79a88341d2636bc4e9878d6d607c7f1176daacef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierce Lopez Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 02:24:29 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] README: clarify Fabric-2.x / Fabric3 stuff --- README.rst | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 148faa9a..633b78c4 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -7,12 +7,17 @@ and is intended to add only bug fixes and compatibility patches, for projects already using Fabric-1.x in some way. It includes python3 compatibility patches from `Fabric3 `_. +Upstream Fabric is now on version 2.x. Fabric-2.x is python3 compatible, +and comes *after* Fabric3. Fabric-2.x has significant compatibility-breaking +changes, in order to fix some long-standing limitations. + You probably should not use this for new projects, in that case you should -consider Fabric-2.x from http://www.fabfile.org/ or maybe Ansible or something else. +consider Fabric-2.x - see http://www.fabfile.org/ ------ -fab-classic is `on PyPI `_, so you can ``pip install fab-classic`` +fab-classic is `on PyPI `_, +so you can ``pip install fab-classic`` .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/ploxiln/fab-classic.svg?branch=master :target: https://travis-ci.org/ploxiln/fab-classic