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 Fixes and Enhancements since Version 0.5 alpha 1  Fixes and Enhancements since Version 0.5 alpha 1
   
    Changed, Enhanced, or Newly Deprecated Features
   
    - 'binding.Acquire()' now accepts a 'default' value argument, and
      'binding.New()' no longer accepts the 'bindToOwner' flag.
   
    - There is a new 'binding.IComponentKey' interface that is used to implement
      'IComponent.lookupComponent()'.  Now you can implement this interface,
      or create an adapter for it, in order to make an object usable as an
      argument to 'binding.lookupComponent()' - and therefore usable as a key
      for 'binding.bindTo()' or 'binding.bindToSequence()'.  Not that it's
      necessarily very useful to do so; you're probably better off simply
      creating a naming scheme.  But it might be useful for lookups done
      in the context of classes, since naming schemes aren't usable there.
      (It was actually added in order to factor out all the type testing that
      'lookupComponent' used to do, so it doesn't matter if it's useful for
      much else.)
   
    - PEAK has been refactored to avoid the use of 'isImplementedBy()' and
      similar introspection, in favor of 'adapt()'.  As a result, some
      'peak.naming' interfaces have changed.  This should not affect you
      if you are only subclassing PEAK-provided naming components and not
      implementing these interfaces "from scratch".  However, the various
      'isAddress', 'isAddressClass', 'isResolver', and 'isName' APIs have
      also been removed, as they were based on 'isImplementedBy()'.
   
    - 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'.  Similarly, the ability
      to use 'isImplementedBy()' with interfaces declared by PEAK is REMOVED.
      You can still use 'isImplementedBy()' with Zope interfaces, of course,
      but we recommend you switch to 'adapt()', which will work with both PEAK
      and Zope interfaces.
   
    - Replaced all use of 'zope.interface' with 'protocols' package because
      the 'protocols' package:
   
      * 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
   
      * transparently supports transitive adaptation - i.e. if adapter AB
        adapts from A to B, and adapter BC adapts from B to C, then an adapt(x,C)
        where 'x' is an 'A', will be implemented as BC(AB(x)).
   
      * Supports "open protocols" that allow you to "superclass" a protocol
        to create a subset protocol; objects that support the first protocol
        will automatically support the subset protocol.  For example, if one
        person defines a "dictionary" protocol, someone else can create a
        "read-only dictionary" protocol, and all objects supporting the
        "dictionary protocol" will be considered to implement the "read-only
        dictionary" protocol.
   
      * can interoperate with other interface packages, including Zope's, but
        does not require them
   
      * works with module inheritance (for everything but moduleProvides(), and
        we should get to that by 0.5a2)
   
      * 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()'
   
      * uses adaptation as the fundamental approach to dealing with interfaces,
        and avoids the use of 'isImplementedBy()'.  In the *rare* case that you
        need to introspect rather than adapt, you can always call adapt() and
        check the result.
   
      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.)  So, we no longer require or distribute
      'zope.interface'.
   
    - 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.  Also, the 'retrieve()' method
      of URLs is deprecated; please begin defining the 'getObjectInstance()'
      method instead.  This is to cut down a bit on the number of ways that the
      naming package spells the idea of retrieving something!
   
      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   - Removed 'LOG_XYZ' convenience functions from 'peak.api', and refactored
    'peak.running.logs' to use a PEP 282-like interface, 'running.ILogger'.     '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     Under the new scheme, messages must be sent to a specific entry point
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    '_getConfigData', 'getComponentName', or 'notifyUponAssembly', you need     '_getConfigData', 'getComponentName', or 'notifyUponAssembly', you need
    to wrap them with 'binding.metamethod' now.     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 'mof2py' generator script not working
   
  - Fixed model.Element not getting parent component set when passed as a   - Fixed model.Element not getting parent component set when passed as a
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  - Fixed IndentedStream generating all-whitespace lines   - Fixed IndentedStream generating all-whitespace lines
   
  - 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).  
   


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