Nose 0.9 final!

Nose 0.9 final has been released!

nose 0.9 includes a host of new features, as well as numerous backwards-incompatible changes to interfaces and implementation.

Thanks to the many folks who have contributed patches and ideas and made bug reports for the development version of 0.9, especially Mika Eloranta, Jay Parlar, Kevin Dangoor, Scot Doyle, Titus Brown and Philip J.Eby.

Here's a quick rundown of what's new in 0.9

• Plugins
  The most important new feature is support for plugins using setuptools entrypoints. nose plugins can select and load tests (like the builtin doctest plugin), reject tests (like the builtin attrib plugin, contributed by Mika Eloranta, that allows users to select tests by attribute), watch and report on tests (like the builtin coverage and profiler plugins), completely replace test result output (like the html result plugin in the examples directory) or any combination of the above. Writing plugins is simple: subclass nose.plugins.Plugin and implement any of the methods in nose.plugins.IPluginInterface.
• Better compatibility with unittest
  Test loading has been consolidated into a test loader class that is drop-in compatible with unittest.TestLoader. Likewise test result output, including output capture, assert introspection, and support for skipped and deprecated tests, in nose.result.TextTestResult. If you want those features and not the rest of nose, you can use just those classes. nose.main() has also been rewritten to have the same signature as unittest.main().
• Better command line interface
  Command line test selection is more intuitive and powerful, enabling easy and correct running of single tests while ensuring that fixtures (setup and teardown) are correctly executed at all levels. No more -f -m or -o options: now simply specify the tests to run:
  nosetests this/file.py that.module
  Tests may be specified down to the callable:
  nosetests this/file.py:TestClass that.module:this_test
nosetests that.module:TestClass.test_method
  There are also new options for dropping into pdb on errors or failures, and stopping the test run on the first error or failure (thanks to Kevin Dangoor for the idea).
• More!
  Helpful test decorators and functions in nose.tools. Support for generators in test classes. Better import path handling -- that you can shut off! Detailed verbose logging using the logging package. And more...