New release: Yapsy 1.10 !

A new version of yapsy has just been released with new features and a better documentation.

The main changes are:

• the new "plugin locators" enables you to customize the detection of plugins.
  • You're no longer forced to use a "plugin info" text file along with your plugin's sources !
  • you can describe, locate and fetch your plugin the way you want !
• allow a same plugin to belong to several categories per plugin
• improve logging and use a named logger specific to yapsy
• allow calling code to get detailed information on plugin load error via a callback
• store extra info to plug-in as a configparser instance stored in PluginInfo.details
• improve the doc with an advice/troubleshooting page and links to external tutorials

NOTE: a lot of methods have been deprecated but kept for backward compatibility. If your project already uses yapsy everything should work the same (if not fill a bug or support request). However if your project is on a critical phase, you may want to wait a little before using this new yapsy version :)

This new version benefitted from a lot of great contributions and suggestions.

Special thanks to the main code contributors for this release:

• Mathieu Havel
• Mathieu Clabaut
• Mark Fickett

REMINDER: for people maintaining git or hg repos in sync with yapsy's main repo: the URL has changed since October and is now: http://hg.code.sf.net/p/yapsy/code

Last but not least, it seems that yapsy is used in more and more projects, the latest ones I know about being:

• Aranduka: http://code.google.com/p/aranduka/
• err: http://gbin.github.com/err/
• nikola: http://nikola.ralsina.com.ar/

Feel free to tell me if you're using yapsy in your project !