Ephemetoot

Improves user instructions, adds checks when running `--init`, and provides more control over logging.

Big thanks to msafadieh for improving `--quiet` mode.

Enhancements

57 - `quiet` mode now has quieter (`-qq`) and silent (`-qqq`) modes to suppress logging - msafadieh
59 - check and provide advice when users enter data in wrong format when using `--init` - hughrun

Bug fixes

59 - fix upgrade message in `--version` being incorrect - hughrun

Finally, you can install and update `ephemetoot` directly from pypi using `pip`!

Version 3 is packaged using [poetry](https://python-poetry.org) and available [on pypi](https://pypi.org/project/ephemetoot).

Nearly all of the changes in Version 3 are 'plumbing':

- install from pypi using `pip install ephemetoot`
- now includes test suite
- new and improved docs at [ephemetoot.hugh.run](https://ephemetoot.hugh.run)
- `--init` flag guides users through creating a config file
- `--verbose` flag provide more information about errors
- improved error and console messages

Check out the docs for more information.

Install

pip install ephemetoot


Upgrade

pip uninstall ephemetoot
pip install ephemetoot


or, if you accidentally installed version 2.6.1 already:

pip install --upgrade ephemetoot

This release incorporates a full test suite, but no new features.

Primarily this release is about 'plumbing'. Contributors should notice the code base is easier to understand, but end-users should notice no real change compared to the alpha 3 release.

This is an 'alpha' pre-release for version 3.

it probably works, but there are no guarantees. Version 3 moves installation to `PyPi` and therefore we can no longer rely on certain files existing (`config-example.yaml` and `ephemetoot.scheduler.plist`, specifically).

Installing

If you are already using ephemetoot you need to uninstall your current version:

pip3 uninstall ephemetoot

This is a pre-release so you will need to specify the exact version to install from PyPi:

Enhancements
- There is now a `--init` flag that can be used to guide new users through the creation of a config file.
- `ephemetoot` can now be installed from PyPi using `pip3 install ephemetoot`