I just wanted to say thank you to Alberto for his hard work. Also, I wanted to mention that I don't know of any widgets in the twtools family that use Rule Dispatch. I urge those using RD in their widgets to speak up about it so that we can move quickly from deprecation to elimination.
cheers. -chris On May 29, 2:27 pm, Alberto Valverde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > We've just made a new important release, here's the changelog: > > 0.8.6 (May, 29 2008) > -------------------- > > * Removed use of RuleDispatch but left the requirement in order not to break > backwards compatibility. Use of TW's generic functions will issue > DeprecationWarnings. Please fix your code ASAP (use peak.rules if > absolutely > need gfs) since deprecated code will be removed in 0.9. > * fixed memory leak caused by function closures passed to the template > context > when using genshi. > * injector_middleware now properly handles wrapped apps that use the write > func returned by start_response > * Docs are finally hitting the repository! > * :func:`tw.core.resource_injector.inject_resources` has changed it's > signature making ``resources`` an optional parameter and switched places > with ``html``. > > The most important change is that ToscaWidgets no longer uses generic > functions from RuleDispatch internally paving the road for total removal > of any dependency with C extensions in the very near future. > > Probably this change won't affect many users at all since we haven't > seen much widgets using RuleDispatch in the wild, unless some bug > introduced by the rewrite slipped in through the test-suite. > > This version still depends on RuleDispatch and care has been taken so > widgets/projects using generic functions from TW (the ones with the > PriorityDisambiguated method combiner) won't break but issue deprecation > warnings instead. > > Version 0.9 will no longer require RuleDispatch at all and client code > that extends one of TW's generic functions with RuleDispatch will *not > work* so please fix your widgets/projects ASAP, possibly using > PEAK-Rules as an alternative. > > Enjoy, > > Alberto --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
