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__implements__ is dead, long live implements()!  We are also no longer
using 'zope.interface', but instead using a complete, interoperable
replacement for it.  Also, tweaked a few things so that using pydoc or
'help()' on PEAK component classes and interfaces now works halfway
decently, as opposed to producing tracebacks (or dumping core!).

'zope.interface' will soon be removed from the PEAK distribution
altogether.  See CHANGES.txt for details of why this replacement was
created.
Fixes and Enhancements since Version 0.5 alpha 1

 Changed, Enhanced, or Newly Deprecated Features

 - REMOVED ability to use '__implements__' and '__class_implements__' to
   declare support for interfaces.  Use 'implements()', 'classProvides()',
   'directlyProvides()', 'moduleProvides()', etc. to do this now; they
   are now available automatically from 'peak.api'.

 - Replaced all use of 'zope.interface' with 'peak.interface', because
   the new 'peak.interface':

   * is considerably smaller and simpler than 'zope.interface'

   * produces Interface objects that can be inspected with the Python
     'pydoc' and 'help()' tools

   * supports and implements the PEP 246 'adapt()' protocol

   * can interoperate with other interface packages, including Zope's, but
     does not require them

   * works with module inheritance (for everything but moduleProvides())

   * lets you use Interfaces as abstract base classes (i.e., you can
     inherit from an interface and turn it into an implementation, and
     you can define default attribute values or method implementations in
     your interfaces

   * Lets you mix interface declarations from any number of frameworks and
     any number of interface types, in a single 'implements()' or
     'classProvides()'

   Most of these features are unavailable in 'zope.interface', and some have
   been declared by the Zope Pope to be unacceptable or undesirable features
   for Zope interfaces.  Others may be available in some form in future
   versions of Zope X3.

 - The signatures of the 'getObjectInstance()', 'getStateToBind()', and
   'getURLContext()' methods in the 'peak.naming' package have changed, to
   place the context or parent component as the first, non-optional argument.
   (If you don't know what these methods are for, you don't need to do anything
   about this, as they are part of the naming package's extensibility
   framework.)

 - 'EigenRegistry' and 'PropertyMap' no longer attempt to figure out whether
   implied (i.e. inherited) interfaces are more or less general with respect
   to a previous registration.  This was behavior that emulated Zope adapter
   registries, but what we really wanted was more akin to a Zope "type"
   registry.  The only parts of the test suite that used the old behavior
   were the tests specifically written to ensure that behavior!

 - 'binding.bindTo()' now accepts a 'default=' argument, whose value will be
   used in case of a 'NameNotFound' error.

 - DEPRECATED 'naming.ParsedURL'.  It will disappear in 0.5 alpha 3 or beta.
   It is replaced by the new 'naming.URL.Base'.  The 'naming.URL' package
   provides a new URL parsing framework based on 'peak.model'.  Upgrading from
   'ParsedURL' to 'URL.Base' is trivial for ParsedURL subclasses that used
   only the 'scheme' and 'body' fields, and in fact may not require any
   changes except for the choice of base class.

   For more complex URL classes, the '__init__' methods go away, 'parse'
   methods change slightly, and explicit field definitions (using
   'model.structField' or similar) are required.  See PEAK's 'URL.Base'
   subclasses for examples.  There is also a sophisticated parsing and
   formatting framework (see the 'peak.naming.URL' and 'peak.util.fmtparse'
   modules) that can be used in place of the old regex-based approach.

 - Added 'peak.util.fmtparse', a parsing and formatting framework, and
   integrated it with 'peak.model' so that any element type can have a
   syntax for parsing from, or formatting to, a string.

 - Added 'binding.whenAssembled(...)' as syntax sugar for
   'binding.Once(...,activateUponAssembly=True)'.

 - Removed 'LOG_XYZ' convenience functions from 'peak.api', and refactored
   'peak.running.logs' to use a PEP 282-like interface, 'running.ILogger'.
   Under the new scheme, messages must be sent to a specific entry point
   (e.g. 'self.logger.warning("foo")').  Components can bind an attribute
   directly to a logger object, or via configuration properties or utilities.
   PEAK components that do logging all define a 'logger' attribute, bound
   to a configuration property in the 'peak.logs' property namespace.  By
   a default in 'peak.ini', 'peak.logs.*' is configured to output messages
   of 'WARNING' priority or higher to 'sys.stderr'.

   For compatibility with the PEP 282 logging package, a 'logging.logger:'
   URL scheme has been added; looking up the URL '"logging.logger:foo.bar"'
   is equivalent to 'logging.getLogger("foo.bar")', unless the 'logging'
   package is not available, in which case the configuration property
   'peak.logs.foo.bar' will be looked up in the target context of the
   lookup.  Optionally, you can configure the 'logging.logger' URL scheme so
   that it only uses PEAK loggers, and never uses the PEP 282 loggers.

 - Added 'binding.metamethod()' wrapper for metaclass methods that might
   not be accessible from their instances if the instances (classes) also
   defined the method for *their* instances.  You must now use this wrapper
   on any such metaclass-defined methods, as PEAK no longer works around
   this via the 'x.__class__.foo(x,...)' trick that was used previously.
   In particular, if you have metaclass definitions of 'getParentComponent',
   '_getConfigData', 'getComponentName', or 'notifyUponAssembly', you need
   to wrap them with 'binding.metamethod' now.

 - Made 'NOT_GIVEN' and 'NOT_FOUND' recognizable by humans (they 'repr'
   and 'str' to their names) and by Python (they can be pickled, and
   when restored they come back as the same object).


 Corrected Problems

 - Fixed 'naming.lookup()' and related APIs not setting the parent component
   of created objects without an explicitly supplied 'creationParent' keyword
   argument.  This used to "sort of work" when we had implicit configuration
   parents, but was broken when we went "all explicit" for 0.5 alpha 1.

 - Fixed a problem where initializing single-valued immutable fields of
  'peak.model' types did not perform type/value normalization.

 - Fixed a problem where bindTo would use the attribute name as the
   default value for a lookup, if the requested name/property/utility
   was not found.

 - Fixed 'mof2py' generator script not working

 - Fixed model.Element not getting parent component set when passed as a
   constructor argument.

 - Fixed property/utility lookups not working correctly on model.*
   objects.

 - Fixed IndentedStream generating all-whitespace lines


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