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RELEASE: Elisa 0.3.3 'Mayfly'
by philippe＠fluendo.com Jan. 16, 2008

Jan. 16, 2008

This mail announces the release of Elisa 0.3.3 'Mayfly'. Elisa is a project to create an open source cross platform media center solution. While our primary development and deployment platform is GNU/Linux and Unix operating systems we also currently support MacOSX and also hope to support Microsoft Windows in the future. In addition to personal video recorder functionality (PVR) and Music Jukebox support, Elisa will also interoperate with devices following the DLNA standard like Intel's ViiV systems. Elisa uses Twisted and GStreamer. Twisted enables the high-level functionality, distributing components over the network. GStreamer, through the Python bindings, enables the high-speed low-level functionality: actual media processing. For more information, see http://elisa.fluendo.com To file bugs, go to https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/newticket?component=core This is Elisa 0.3.3 "Mayfly", third release of the 0.3 branch. Highlights of the features added since 0.3.2: - completely new user interface named 'raval' making a better use of screen's real estate - new visualisation modes: grid of pictures, vertical list and cover flow like - stacks of picture replace dull directory icons - mouse support greatly improved - playback from DAAP shares has been reactivated - new YouTube plugin - audio visualisation using libvisual - faster startup - better detection of media types using GStreamer - basic playlist support Bugs fixed since 0.3.2: - 752: [win32] update media_uri with windows path - 885: Online services thumbnails do not appear - 195: Windows port - 385: elisa should not hardcode file extensions as a way to detect file type - 418: Font regeneration when viewport size changes - 427: DAAP playback support - 506: solve the sorting problem - 721: Elisa not starting when running on Python 2.4 - 748: Externalisation in separate files of model/controller/views associations - 758: [win32] units tests do not works on windows - 763: Component missing a Python dependency prevents Elisa from starting up - 781: thread issue with hal, dbus and the elisa bus - 446: Cleanup of attribute change notifications - 592: ticket explanation page - 618: Don't ship .mo files in the source distribution - 633: Sizes in player_view of poblenou_frontend should be relative to the canvas - 709: Use ReviewBoard for code reviews - 725: Unicode breaks media_uri (as usual) - 728: Typefinding potential improvements - 732: Windows/task system - 733: faster plugins loading - 738: HAL fails to initialize if dbus not running - 743: Cleanup and proper testing of lists in MVC - 745: Complete unit tests in core - 750: In Pigment based frontends, changing the size of the canvas does not work well - 762: use media_manager wherever os.open or open() is called - 774: Playing a video and then trying to play another one before its end does not work - 778: Hotplug is broken - 787: Remove the classic frontend plugin - 788: Split plugins.bad.media_bad in two plugins - 789: split plugins.good.input_good in two plugins - 790: split plugins.good.media_good - 791: move stage6 plugins in ugly - 792: split plugins.ugly.media_ugly in two plugins - 801: split plugins in plugins.base.media_provider - 839: update configuration updator - 846: Split plugins.bad.input_bad in two plugins - 847: Split plugins.good.services_good in three plugins - 850: Rename and move service plugin (elisa/plugins/service) into an about plugin - 865: Polish (pol) translation - 868: get_metadata should have a priority parameter - 722: PlayerRegistry should state a warning if there are no player engines in the configuration - 723: Play next song after current song is finished. - 724: Bind next track on streamzap remotes to next song by default - 760: make XDG user-dirs support optional - 761: gnomevfs plugin crashes if gnomevfs module is not installed - 765: Elisa starts when pysqlite2 is not installed, but segfaults when it is - 772: playbin engine/player engine will not open property_set('uri'.... - 773: EXIF Rotated pictures are rotated at low quality and not rotated in high - 852: move mouse in player frame dropping video - 854: Subtitles desynced when seeking in media - 861: Add moblin detection code in setup.py - 866: Untranslated strings - 894: GPL-Licence and copyright year update Download You can find source releases of Elisa in the download directory: http://elisa.fluendo.com/download Elisa Homepage More details can be found on the project's website: http://elisa.fluendo.com Support and Bugs We use an issue tracker for bug reports and feature requests: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/newticket Developers You can browse the repository of SVN code from our tracker. All code is in SVN and can be checked out from there. It is hosted on https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/svn/ Contributors to this release: - Guido Amoruso - Hugo Baldasano - Florian Boucault - Christophe Dumas - Alessandro Decina - Benjamin Kampmann - Arek Korbik - Lionel Martin - Loïc Molinari - Philippe Normand - Michał Sawicz - Josep Torra

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Shed Skin (restricted) Python-to-C++ Compiler 0.0.26
by Mark Dufour Jan. 16, 2008

Jan. 16, 2008

Hi all, I have just released Shed Skin 0.0.26, with the following goodies: -Almost complete support for os.path (bootstrapped using Shed Skin) -Support for collections.defaultdict (completing collections) -Much improved support for the os module (though many methods remain) -Support for 5 of 7 last missing str methods -Added support for getopt.gnu_getopt (bootstrapped) -Improved support for locales -Optimized string addition (a+b+c..) -Much better documentation (tutorial) -Added a Debian package -Squashed many bugs -Moved to Google code hosting Please have a look at my latest blog entry for more details about the release, or visit the new Google code hosting site: http://shed-skin.blogspot.com http://shedskin.googlecode.com Thanks, Mark Dufour. -- "One of my most productive days was throwing away 1000 lines of code" - Ken Thompson

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ANN: cssutils 0.9.5a2
by Christof Hoeke Jan. 15, 2008

Jan. 15, 2008

what is it ---------- A Python package to parse and build CSS Cascading Style Sheets. main changes since 0.9.5a1 -------------------------- 0.9.5a2 is a Bugfix release fixing a few minor issues for full details for 0.9.5a2 see the relevant CHANGELOG: http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.5a2/CHANGELOG.txt A few (minor) non-backwards compatible changes have been made in 0.9.5, please see http://cssutils.googlecode.com/svn/tags/TAG_0.9.5a2/documentation/migrate.t… for migration help. license ------- cssutils is published under the LGPL. download -------- for download options for see http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ cssutils needs Python 2.4 or higher (tested with Python 2.5 on Vista only) bug reports, comments, etc are very much appreciated! thanks, Christof

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ANN: Leo 4.4.6 beta 2 released
by Edward K Ream Jan. 15, 2008

Jan. 15, 2008

Leo 4.4.6 beta 2 is available at: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458&package_id=29106 Leo 4.4.6 fixes several recently reported bugs, all minor. Leo is a text editor, data organizer, project manager and much more. See: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/intro.html The highlights of Leo 4.4.6: ---------------------------- - Fixes all known bugs. - Added @auto importers for javascript and xml files. - Added find-next-clone and toggle-sparse-move commands. Links: ------ Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html Home: http://sourceforge.net/projects/leo/ Download: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3458 CVS: http://leo.tigris.org/source/browse/leo/ Quotes: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/testimonials.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Edward K. Ream email: edreamleo(a)yahoo.com Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html --------------------------------------------------------------------

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December PSF Board meeting minutes available
by David Goodger Jan. 15, 2008

Jan. 15, 2008

Minutes of a Regular Meeting of the Board of Directors of the Python Software Foundation, December 10, 2007: http://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2007-12-10/ -- David Goodger <http://python.net/~goodger>

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Bookmarks Database and Internet Robot 4.1
by Oleg Broytmann Jan. 15, 2008

Jan. 15, 2008

Hello! Bookmarks Database and Internet Robot WHAT IS IT A set of classes, libraries, programs and plugins I use to manipulate my bookmarks.html. I like Mozilla, but I need more features. I want to extend Mozilla's "Check for updates" feature (Navigator4 called it "Update bookmarks"). WHAT'S NEW in version 4.1.0 (2008-01-14) Parser for HTML based on BeautifulSoup. Changed User-agent header: I saw a number of sites that forbid "Mozilla compatible" browsers. Added a number of fake headers to pretend this is a real web-browser - there are still stupid sites that are trying to protect themselves from robots by analyzing headers. Handle redirects while looking for the icon. Handle float timeouts in HTML redirects. Minimal required version of Python is 2.5 now. WHAT'S NEW in version 4.0.0 (2007-10-20) Extended support for Mozilla: charset and icon in bookmarks. Use the charset to add Accept-Charset header. Retrieve favicon.ico (or whatever <link> points to) and store it. The project celebrates 10th anniversary! WHAT'S NEW in version 3.4.1 (2005-01-29) Updated to Python 2.4. Switched from CVS to Subversion. WHERE TO GET Master site: http://phd.pp.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db A mirror: http://phd.webhost.ru/Software/Python/#bookmarks_db AUTHOR Oleg Broytmann <phd(a)phd.pp.ru> COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1997-2008 PhiloSoft Design LICENSE GPL Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd(a)phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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ANN[Numerical optimization] Connect your solver(s) to OpenOpt!
by dmitrey Jan. 15, 2008

Jan. 15, 2008

Hi all, let me remember you that OpenOpt is free Python-based BSD-licensed alternative to commercial AMPL, GAMS, TOMOPT/TOMNET, that are rather costly. Anyone is welcome to connect his solver(s) in terms of any license(s). Let me also note: information of solver authors, homepage, license, algorithm is stored in output structure, for example >>> r.solverInfo {'alg': 'Augmented Lagrangian Multipliers', 'homepage': 'http:// www.ime.usp.br/~egbirgin/tango/', 'license': 'GPL', 'authors': 'J. M. Martinez martinezimecc-at-gmail.com, Ernesto G. Birgin egbirgin-at- ime.usp.br, Jan Marcel Paiva Gentil jgmarcel-at-ime.usp.br'} Here are some reasons for optimization software owners/developers to connect their software to OpenOpt http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/whereProfitsForOpenOptConnectedSolverOw… and here are some reasons for users to choose OpenOpt: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/whyOpenOpt4user Regards, OpenOpt developers homepage: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OpenOpt Brief introduction to numerical optimization problems and related software: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OOIntroduction newsline: http://openopt.blogspot.com/ feedback: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OOFeedback OpenOpt TODO list: http://scipy.org/scipy/scikits/wiki/OO_TODO

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Pydev 1.3.11 Released
by Fabio Zadrozny Jan. 14, 2008

Jan. 14, 2008

Hi All, Pydev and Pydev Extensions 1.3.11 have been released Details on Pydev Extensions: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Details on Pydev: http://pydev.sf.net Details on its development: http://pydev.blogspot.com Release Highlights in Pydev Extensions: ----------------------------------------------------------------- * Code-analysis: Doesn't report 'statement without effect' within yield. * Code-analysis: @DynamicAttrs now works in direct class access (not only on instance access from a class). * Code-analysis: Names to consider in global do not trigger undefined variables when they have some attribute access. * Code-analysis: Accessing locals() will mark local variables as read. * Code-analysis: No indentation warnings on multiline strings that use double quotes. Release Highlights in Pydev: ---------------------------------------------- * Jython Integration: Java modules may be referenced from pydev projects (working with code-completion, go to definition, etc). * Jython Debugger: Does not attempt to run untraced threads if version <= 2.2.1 (this was a Jython bug that's patched for the current trunk -- note: it prevented the debugger from working correctly with Jython). * Project build: Only referenced projects are rebuilt (and not all projects in the workspace -- e.g.: unreferenced c++ projects). * Spell checking (depends on JDT): Integrated for comments and strings within pydev (eclipse 3.4 should add the support for working without JDT. Reference: http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-text/3.4/plan.php). * Files without extension: A file without extension can have code-completion / go to definition (as long as the others around it do have extensions) * Debug: Variable substitution is no longer asked twice in debug mode. * Custom Filters: User-defined filters can be specified in the Pydev package explorer. * Debugger: performance improvements to get the existing frames for Python 2.4 and Jython 2.1. * Outline view: Better refresh (doesn't collapse the tree for simple structure changes). * Undo limit: The undo limit set in window > preferences > general > editors > text editors works for pydev. * Editor: Tabs as spaces: The newly added 'insert spaces for tabs' in the general preferences was conflicting with pydev (those settings are now ignored) * Patch by Laurent Dore: Added filter for *.py~ and comments * Delete *.pyc action: also deletes *.pyo files * Ctrl+Click: behaves exactly as F3. * Dedent: No auto-dedent after yield What is PyDev? --------------------------- PyDev is a plugin that enables users to use Eclipse for Python and Jython development -- making Eclipse a first class Python IDE -- It comes with many goodies such as code completion, syntax highlighting, syntax analysis, refactor, debug and many others. Cheers, -- Fabio Zadrozny ------------------------------------------------------ Software Developer ESSS - Engineering Simulation and Scientific Software http://www.esss.com.br Pydev Extensions http://www.fabioz.com/pydev Pydev - Python Development Enviroment for Eclipse http://pydev.sf.net http://pydev.blogspot.com

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[ANN] pylint 0.14 / logilab-astng 0.17.2
by Sylvain Thénault Jan. 14, 2008

Jan. 14, 2008

Hi there! I'm pleased to announce a new release of pylint [1] and logilab-astng [2]. I haven't personally found a lot of time to work on those projects since the latest releases but others contributors have and so I decided to publish releases including various contributions and other minor bug or crash fixes (some of which were pending for a while now). You're greatly encouraged to upgrade, see projects'changelog for more information about what changed. [1] http://www.logilab.org/projects/pylint [2] http://www.logilab.org/projects/logilab-astng Many thanks to every people who contributed! regards, -- Sylvain Thénault LOGILAB, Paris (France) Formations Python, Zope, Plone, Debian: http://www.logilab.fr/formations Développement logiciel sur mesure: http://www.logilab.fr/services Python et calcul scientifique: http://www.logilab.fr/science

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ANN: CherryPy 3.1.0 beta3 Released
by Christian Wyglendowski Jan. 13, 2008

Jan. 13, 2008

Announcing CherryPy 3.1.0 beta3. The first beta was released about 3 months ago. There was a beta2 release that went largely unannounced in between. Here is a list of some of the changes from beta1 to beta3. Bugfixes: * log.screen now sends error messages to stderr (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/747) * Logging thread-safety issue (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/751) * Exception when parsing Content-Type (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/763) * Session Tool cleanup frequency was too high (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/760) * Session identifier security fix (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/709) * cherrypy.checker false alarm (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/754) * Problem running behind mod_python (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/766) Changes: * Returned to a single-server model (http://www.cherrypy.org/ticket/752) * Bug/plugin improvements * Removed engine from restsrv Full details here: http://www.cherrypy.org/log/trunk?action=stop_on_copy&rev=1861&stop_rev=181… Get the beta release at the following link or via easy_install (easy_install "CherryPy==3.1.0beta3"): http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/CherryPyDownload Instructions for upgrading from 3.0.x are here: http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/UpgradeTo31 General information on new stuff in 3.1: http://www.cherrypy.org/wiki/WhatsNewIn31 Thanks to everyone who contributed bug reports and code for this release. Christian Wyglendowski CherryPy Team

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