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version 1280, Mon Jul 28 20:37:58 2003 UTC version 1335, Wed Aug 13 23:36:59 2003 UTC
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  Changed, Enhanced, or Newly Deprecated Features   Changed, Enhanced, or Newly Deprecated Features
   
    - '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
      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()'
      or 'lookupComponent()'.  The key is constructed using
      'config.ProviderOf(storage.IDataManager,class)'.
   
    - You can now register utilities that are keyed by the combination of an
      interface and one or more classes, using 'config.ProviderOf(iface,*classes)'
      as a configuration key.  Providers are registered under an '(iface,klass)'
      tuple for each specified class, and looked up using the MRO order of the
      class specified for lookup.  In other words, searching for a provider will
      find a provider for the requested class, or one of its base classes, with
      precedence given to the more-specific provider.  This is primarily intended
      for services like data managers and Specialists.
   
    - It's now possible to extend .ini file parsing with custom section types,
      and PEAK defines its own built-in section types using this extension
      mechanism.  Custom section types must include at least one space, (e.g.
      '[My Section]') or they will be treated as a plain property name.
      See the 'peak.config.iniFile.sectionParsers' section in 'peak.ini' for
      more details, along with the 'config.ISettingParser' and 'config.IIniParser'
      interfaces.
   
    - When creating a 'PropertyName()', it's now possible to force conversion of
      invalid characters to '_', using the 'PropertyName.fromString()'
      constructor.  (Note that the input must be a plain-ASCII string.)  Unless
      you request that wildcards ('?' and '*') be kept, they will also be
      converted to '_' characters.  This can be convenient for converting things
      like filenames or text that might contain spaces, to property names.
   
    - It's now possible to declare an attribute as offering a wildcard property;
      such lookups now follow the same rules as other wildcard property lookups.
      The 'config.IConfigKey' interface has been changed to cleanly support
      implied keys at both registration and lookup time, so you can implement
      your own key types that work the way interfaces or property names do for
      configuration lookups.
   
    - The 'EigenRegistry' class has been moved from 'peak.util.EigenData' to
      'peak.config.registries', as it hasn't really been useful outside PEAK for
      a while now.
   
  - .ini files now support "smart property" objects ('config.ISmartProperty').   - .ini files now support "smart property" objects ('config.ISmartProperty').
    If a property rule defined in an .ini file evaluates at runtime to an object     If a property rule defined in an .ini file evaluates at runtime to an object
    that implements 'ISmartProperty', the object will be given a chance to     that implements 'ISmartProperty', the object will be given a chance to


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