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version 379, Tue Apr 2 21:38:41 2002 UTC version 1069, Fri May 2 16:29:40 2003 UTC
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 New Features and Bug Fixes since v0.2, preview 1  Fixes and Enhancements since Version 0.5 alpha 1
   
  * SEF.DynamicBinding is now SEF.AutoCreated, and all AutoCreatable   - Made 'NOT_GIVEN' and 'NOT_FOUND' recognizable by humans (they 'repr'
    classes like SEF.App and SEF.Service must now have an '__init__' method     and 'str' to their names) and by Python (they can be pickled, and
    that accepts their SEF parent component.  This lets such objects have     when restored they come back as the same object).
    access to the SEF hierarchy during initialization.  (Note that this  
    means any '__init__' methods of such classes must be revised to take  
    this into consideration.  See TW.Database.DataModel.Database for an  
    example of such a revision.)  
   
    Also, I dropped the unused SEF.StaticBinding class.  
   
  * 'setupModule()' and 'adviseModule()' will now issue warnings for most  
    questionable code structures and variable redefinitions that might not  
    work the way you'd expect or intend under module inheritance.  
   
  * Added tests and documentation for 'adviseModule()' API  
   
  * Added a 'test' command to 'setup.py' that installs and then tests all of  
    TransWarp.  (It saves me time running the unit tests while I'm writing  
    new code.)  
   
  * Added warnings for detectable module-level modifications of mutables  
    in modules which are used for inheritances or advice.  Added an API  
    function, 'configure(object, attr1=val, attr2=val,...)' to safely  
    set attributes of mutables that might have been defined in a derived  
    module.  
   
  * Removed 'Meta.ClassInit' and '__class_init__' support.  Use metaclass  
    '__init__' methods instead; see 'TW.Database.DataModel.RecordTypeMC'  
    for one example of the conversion.  
   
  * Added 'SEF.bindToParent()', 'SEF.bindToNames()', and 'SEF.bindToSelf()'  
    descriptors, to allow more flexible component parameter bindings.  
   
  * Improved key integrity checks in DataModel: Record objects now disallow  
    modification of key fields unless the old value is None, and cache  
    collisions between records with supposedly unique keys will result in an  
    AssertionError.  
   
  * Added 'SET' method (ala WarpCORE's set_X procedures) to  
    TW.Utils.MiniTable.  
   
  * Added more docs to TW.Utils.Code, and removed 'iterFromEnd()' method  
    from code objects.  Added experimental 'nextSplit' index to codeIndex  
    objects that does top-level block analysis to allow splitting a code  
    object into smaller routines.  
   
  * Fixed the "reference to rebound class within another class" problem  
    with module inheritance, as reported by (who else?) Ulrich Eck.  :)  
   
  * Rewrote SEF "features" to use 'element.verbFeature()' style methods  
    instead of 'element.feature.verb()' style.  UML/XMI/Querying code  
    still uses the old-style SEF framework, which is still available from  
    'TW.SEF.FeatureObjects'.  See the docs of 'TW.SEF.Basic.FeatureMC'  
    and 'TW.API.Meta.MethodExporter' for details on how new-style methods  
    work.  
   
  * Fixed misc. bugs in 'DataModel', 'LDAPModel', 'Connections', and  
    'TW.Caching' found by Ulrich Eck.  Thanks Ulrich!  Also, added a fix  
    to ensure that non-existent records are invalidated by  
    'RecordType.getItem()'.  
   
  * Added basic Specialist implementation to 'TW.SEF.Basic', and reverted  
    naming from 'TypeService' and 'ITypeService' to 'Specialist' and  
    'ISpecialist'.  Updated 'TW.SEF.Interfaces' to reflect "self"-less  
    convention for documenting methods.  
   
  * Dropped obsolete 'TW.Database.Records' module.  
   
  * Fixed the base class "rebind by name" bugs in module inheritance, and  
    updated the documentation to more clearly reflect what it is that  
    metaclass generation and module inheritance does and does not do.  Added  
    test cases to prevent regression of the rebind-by-name problem.  
   
  * The 'setup.py' script features a new command, 'happy', which can be used  
    to generate the API reference docs, and this command runs as part of the  
    'sdist' command to build source distributions.  
   
  * The API reference docs in the source distribution has been moved from  
    the 'doc' directory to 'docs/html/reference'.  
   
  * Added 'CHANGES.txt' file.  


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