Make prefix switching use names rather than paths?

[lithp]

Right now it's a bit tedious to switch to /home/ec2-user/enterprise-installation2. Maybe it'd be easier if you could just say enterprise-installation2?

[onderkalaci]

+1 for this 👍

[onderkalaci]

Also, somehow the user should be able to list the installations?

[lithp]

Yeah, that sounds possible:

# Prints the list of different installations (assumes the workers match the master)
fab prefix.list

# Updates pg-latest so future tasks will act upon that installation
fab prefix.switch:[some-name]

All installations will live in some directory, such as $HOME/prefixes, so that [some-name] actually means $HOME/prefixes/[some-name].

Prefix might not be the best name though, can you think of any alternatives?