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  Changed, Enhanced, or Newly Deprecated Features   Changed, Enhanced, or Newly Deprecated Features
   
    - DEPRECATED 'peak.util.signal_stack'.  Instead, bind to a
      'running.ISignalManager' and use its 'addHandler()/removeHandler()' methods.
      This has the same effect as 'pushSignals()' and 'popSignals()', except that
      you do not have to remove handlers in the same order as you add them, and
      *all* active handlers are invoked for a given signal that they handle.
   
    - Added 'IBasicReactor.crash()', which forces an immediate reactor loop exit,
      ignoring pending scheduled calls.
   
    - Added 'peak.running.commands.runMain()', a convenience function for starting
      an application's "main" command, that also makes it easy for forked child
      processes to exit and replace the parent process' "main".  The 'peak' script
      has now been shortened to::
   
          from peak.running import commands
          commands.runMain( commands.Bootstrap )
   
      so it's now much easier to create alternative startup scripts, if you need
      to, or to add an 'if __name__=="__main__"' clause to a module.
   
    - Added 'peak.util.mockdb', a "mock object" implementation of a DBAPI 2.0
      driver module.  'mockdb' connections can be told to 'expect()' queries
      and 'provide()' data to their callers, and will raise AssertionErrors when
      they are used in a way that doesn't conform to your supplied expectations.
      This is intended to be used for unit testing components that depend on
      a database connection: you can verify that they send the right SQL, and
      you can provide them with dummy data to use.  There is also a 'mockdb:' URL
      and peak.storage driver, so you can easily use a mock DB connection in place
      of a real one within a PEAK application, for testing purposes.  Note,
      however, that 'peak.util.mockdb' is a DBAPI 2.0 driver in itself, and thus
      can also be used to test DBAPI usage outside of PEAK.
   
    - SQL connection objects now provide an 'appConfig' attribute that is a
      driver-specific 'config.Namespace()'.  This allows you to easily set up
      configuration properties that are driver-specific.  For example, you could
      use properties to configure driver-specific SQL snippets, then access them
      via the connection's 'appConfig' namespace.  The namespaces are of the form
      'DRIVER.appConfig', where 'DRIVER' is the name of the DBAPI module for that
      connection type (e.g. 'pgdb', 'cx_Oracle', etc.).
   
    - Added 'config.Namespace()' convenience class for redirecting property
      lookups from one namespace to another.  See the docstring and 'peak.ini' for
      usage examples.  'PropertyName.of()' now returns 'Namespace' instances
      instead of 'PropertySet' instances.
   
    - DEPRECATED the 'config.PropertySet' class; please convert to using
      'config.Namespace', as it will disappear in the 0.5alpha4 release cycle.
   
    - SQL connection objects now get their type converters from a distinct
      property namespace for each DBAPI driver.  For example a driver using the
      'cx_Oracle' module will get its type converters from the
      'cx_Oracle.sql_types' property namespace, instead of 'peak.sql_types'.  For
      backward compatibility, these driver-specific namespaces are set up to
      fall back to 'peak.sql_types' for their defaults.  Type converter
      construction has also been improved, to eliminate conversion overhead
      completely when no conversions are required for a specific query.  Also,
      SQL connections now offer a method that will create a row conversion
      function for a given result description and optional postprocessing
      function.  This new method should now be used in place of direct access to
      the 'typeMap' attribute of connection objects.
   
    - Added 'binding.Require', 'binding.Obtain', 'binding.Make', and
      'binding.Delegate'.  *ALL* other binding types are now DEPRECATED, and will
      go away before 0.5 beta is released:
   
      'requireBinding("info")' -- use 'Require("info")'
   
      'delegateTo("attr")' -- use 'Delegate("attr")'
   
      'New(type)' -- use 'Make(type)'
   
      'New("module.type")' -- use 'Make("module.type")'
   
      'bindTo(key)' -- use 'Obtain(key)'
   
      'Constant(value)' -- use 'Make(lambda: value)'
   
      'Acquire(key)' -- use 'Obtain(key, offerAs=[key])'
   
      'Copy(value)' -- use 'Make(lambda: <expr to copy value>)'
   
      'whenAssembled(func)' -- use 'Make(func, uponAssembly=True)'
   
      'bindSequence(key1,key2,...)' -- use 'Obtain([key1,key,...])'
   
      'bindToProperty(x,y)' -- use 'Obtain(PropertyName(x),default=y)'
   
      'bindToParent()' -- use 'Obtain("..")'
   
      'bindToSelf()'  -- use 'Obtain(".")'
   
      'bindToUtilities()' -- no replacement; let me know if you're using this.
   
      Note that 'Make' and 'Obtain' also support sequences of recipes and keys,
      and in those cases will produce a sequence of the results from those recipes
      or keys.  Also, 'Make' will accept no-argument and one-argument callables,
      where 'Once' always required three-argument functions.  This should make it
      a lot easier to write short binding functions.
   
      Also, note that the 'activateUponAssembly' keyword is now 'uponAssembly',
      and 'isVolatile' is now 'noCache'.  (The old names will work as keyword
      arguments until the alpha 4 development cycle begins.)  The
      'binding.IActiveDescriptor' interface also changed as a result of this.
      Last, but not least, a 'binding.IRecipe' interface was added, to support the
      new 'binding.Make' type.
   
   
    - Added a 'lockName' attribute to 'runnning.AdaptiveTask', and a 'LockURL'
      setting to its ZConfig schema.  This allows a lockfile URL to be specified
      for adaptive tasks that need exclusive access to some resource while
      running.
   
    - A list or tuple of 'IComponentKey' instances is now treated as a single
      component key, that returns a tuple of the values returned by each
      constituent component key.  This means that 'binding.Obtain()' and
      'lookupComponent()' can now accept a list or tuple of component keys.  This
      makes 'bindSequence()' obsolete, so 'bindSequence()' is now DEPRECATED.
      'binding.bindSequence(key1,key2,...)' can now be replaced with
      'binding.Obtain([key1,key,...])', and will produce the same results.
   
    - 'naming.IBasicContext.lookup()' and 'naming.lookup()' now accept a 'default'
      argument, similar to that used by 'lookupComponent()' and most other
      lookup-like APIs in PEAK.  This change was made so that component lookups
      don't need to rely on catching 'exceptions.NameNotFound' errors to tell them
      when to use the default value.  This could hide 'NameNotFound' errors that
      were actually from a broken component somewhere in the lookup process.  (In
      general, it's probably a bad idea to have an exception that's used for both
      control flow and real errors!)
   
    - Added new 'version' tool that automatically edits files to update version
      information in them.  Just execute the 'version' file in the main PEAK
      source directory.  (Use '--help' for help.)  You can use this tool with your
      own projects by creating 'version' and 'version.dat' files in your project
      directory, similar to the ones used by PEAK.  The 'version' file is a ZConfig
      file that describes your project's version numbering scheme(s), formats,
      and the files that need to be edited, while the 'version.dat' file contains
      the current version number values.  Source for the tool, including the
      configuration file schema, is in the 'peak.running.tools.version' package.
      (Error handling and documentation, alas, are still minimal.)
   
    - Added new 'Alias' command in 'peak.running.commands'.  An 'Alias' instance
      can be used as a 'peak.running.shortcut' property that expands to another
      command with arbitrary arguments inserted before the original command's
      arguments.  Thus, one might alias 'mycommand' to 'runIni somefile --option',
      similar to command aliases in many shells.
   
    - 'naming.IName' is now derived from 'binding.IComponentKey', so names and
      addresses must now support the 'findComponent()' method.  All PEAK name and
      address types provide support for this.
   
    - The 'lookup()' method of 'binding.IComponentKey' is now called
      'findComponent()', to better distinguish it from 'lookup()' in
      'naming.IBasicContext', which does something very different.
   
    - 'binding.Obtain()' (formerly 'binding.bindTo()' and 'binding.bindSequence()')
      now pre-adapt their arguments to 'IComponentKey', to speed lookups at
      runtime, and to ensure that errors due to an unusable parameter type occur
      at class creation time instead of waiting until lookup time.
   
    - There's a new 'peak.storage.files' module, with handy classes like
      'EditableFile'.  'EditableFile' is a class that lets you edit the contents
      of a file "in place", with atomic replacement of the original at transaction
      commit.  If the transaction is aborted, the original file is left unchanged.
   
    - 'peak.running.scheduler.UntwistedReactor' now supports a configuration
      property ('peak.running.reactor.checkInterval') to determine how long it
      should run 'select()' calls for, when there are no scheduled tasks.
   
    - 'peak.running.scheduler.UntwistedReactor' now supports using a "signal
      manager" component (via the 'peak.running.signalManager' property) to
      process signals while a 'run()' loop is in progress.  Signal managers can
      also be added or removed at any time via the new 'peak.util.signal_stack'
      module.
   
    - 'peak.running.commands.AbstractCommand' now offers a '_run()' method that
      can be overridden in subclasses, instead of 'run()'.  If you override the
      new '_run()' method instead, you get the advantage of automatic handling
      for invocation errors and 'SystemExit' exceptions, provided for you by the
      'run()' method.
   
  - There is now a 'storage.DMFor(class)' function that returns a configuration   - There is now a 'storage.DMFor(class)' function that returns a configuration
    key for registering or looking up data managers by class.  You can use the     key for registering or looking up data managers by class.  You can use the
    returned key in a binding's 'offerAs' list, or as the target of a 'bindTo()'     returned key in a binding's 'offerAs' list, or as the target of a 'bindTo()'
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  Corrected Problems   Corrected Problems
   
     - Fixed some problems with the test suite when running under Python 2.3.
       PEAK itself worked fine, but the test suite was bitten by two minor
       semantic changes that took effect in 2.3, resulting in lots of error
       messages about ModuleType needing a parameter, and a test failure for
       'checkClassInfo' in the 'FrameInfoTest' test class.
   
     - Transaction participants that raised an error in their 'abortTransaction()'
       method, would not receive a 'finishTransaction()' call, the error was
       passed through to the transaction service's caller, and later participants
       might not have received an 'abortTransaction()' message either.
   
     - SQL connections didn't close their cursors before aborting a transaction
   
     - The logging system would raise an error if a log message with no arguments
       contained a '%' sign.
   
   - There was a typo in peak.naming.arithmetic that caused homogeneous non-URL    - There was a typo in peak.naming.arithmetic that caused homogeneous non-URL
     name subtraction to fail.      name subtraction to fail.
   


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