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Fixed a formatting error for the online API reference (now up-to-date at
http://www.telecommunity.com/PEAK/doc/).  Of course, it's only as
complete as the docstrings to date.  :(

Changing docs from TransWarp->PEAK, referenced new site at
http://www.telecommunity.com/PEAK/, prepping docs for 0.5a1 release.

Added 'TWX' package for extensions; added 'TWX.Diagrams.GraphViz'
diagramming utility module.  Very hacky and first-draft, with no unit
tests, but I've manually verified most of the functionality so far.

Added support for pickling instances of nested classes; this required
changing all uses of '__name__' which needed an unqualified class name.
Notably, one should use 'feature.attrName' instead of 'feature.__name__'
in verb definitions.

SEF.DynamicBinding is now SEF.AutoCreated, and all AutoCreatable
classes like SEF.App and SEF.Service must now have an '__init__' method
that accepts their SEF parent component.  This lets such objects have
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.  Also, misc. updates to TODO.

Removed 'Meta.ClassInit' and '__class_init__' support.  Use metaclass
'__init__' methods instead; see 'TW.Database.DataModel.RecordTypeMC'
for one example of the conversion.

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.  Also, made the requirement of an LDAPConnection object
more visible in Database.LDAPModel, and made misc. CHANGES/TODO updates.

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.  :)

New-style features have landed!  Lots o'docs and examples.  CHANGES and
TODO have been updated accordingly.  Enjoy.

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.

Many changes in preparation for 0.2 final, including:

 * Added 'SEF.bindToParent()' and 'SEF.bindToNames()' specifiers to allow
   more flexible component parameter bindings.

 * 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.