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Mahogany 0.21a
by Karsten Ballueder May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Announcing Mahogany Version 0.21a ===================================================================== Mahogany is an OpenSource(TM) cross-platform mail and news client. It is available for X11/Unix and MS Windows platforms, supporting a wide range of protocols and standards, including POP3, IMAP and full MIME support. Thanks to its built-in Python interpreter it can be extended far beyond its original functionality. Mahogany's wealth of features and ease of use make it one of the most powerful clients available, providing a consistent and intuitive interface across all supported platforms. It aims at supporting GNOME (and KDE for that matter) and includes an extendable address book system with support for other program``s address database formats. Currently Mahogany``s native format and (X)Emacs`` BBDB address books are supported. Mahogany is being developed using the free wxWindows application framework, building on the gtk toolkit on Unix. Mahogany is constantly tested on the Linux-x86, Linux-alpha, Solaris-sparc and MS Windows. It should compile and work on any major Unix platform. A binary release for MS Windows will appear with the next release. CHANGES ===================================================================== Apart from bug fixes, the following major additions are new in this release: + working IMAP, NNTP and newsspool support + improved message editor + much better configurability + auto-collection of mails from multiple incoming folders + support for faxes received from EFax.com + improved address auto-collection + more support for slow connections + many user interface improvements + gtk 1.2.x support DOWNLOAD ===================================================================== http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/ http://www.phy.hw.ac.uk/~karsten/Mahogany/ ftp://ronnie.phy.hw.ac.uk/pub/Mahogany/ ftp://ftp.gdev.net/pub/Mahogany/ NEXT ===================================================================== We have another release, this time including a Windows version, planned for the beginning of June. For this we are currently working on the following: - completion of filtering rules/scoring code - subscription management for NNTP/IMAP/newsspool - DND with KDE/Gnome filemanagers (now supported by wxGTK) - Finish the new message editor code: selections, cut&paste, rich-text editing - Templates/style-sheets for message composition and flexible reply handling - Windows version release (End of May?) - Messages sorting, threading, scoring and searching - multi-threading to avoid delays and timeouts - GPG/PGP support - built-in HTML viewer == Karsten Ballüder http://Ballueder.home.dhs.org/ mailto:karsten@phy.hw.ac.uk Physics Department, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, Scotland Tel. +44-(0)-131-4513068 Fax. +44-(0)-131-4513136 "In a world without fences, who needs Gates?" <A HREF="http://mahogany.home.dhs.org/">Mahogany 0.21a</A> - open-source graphical mail/news client for Unix and MS Windows, using the wxWindows toolkit. (12-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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New release of pygtk-0.6.0 and gnome-python-1.0.2
by James Henstridge May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

I have made new releases of pygtk (my bindings for the GTK+ widget toolkit for X windows) and gnome-python (my bindings for the base libraries of GNOME (the GNU network object model environment)). These packages allow you to write GTK+ or GNOME applications easily in python. Note that the gnome-python package contains pygtk, so there is no point in downloading both packages. There are a number of bugs fixed in this release, but the main new feature is that the GTK main loop no longer blocks other python threads, so it is now possible to write multithreaded python programs that use pygtk for their interface. Some care must be taken though, since GTK is not totally thread safe. For this reason, you must call threads_enter() before and threads_leave() after pygtk calls from outside the gtk thread (ie. anywhere other than in a callback). Thanks go to Duncan Grisby for this feature. For more information about pygtk and gnome-python, you can go to my (slightly out of date) web site at http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/ gnome-python is available at: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-python/ and pygtk will soon be available at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/python/ Both packages are also available from my FTP site at ftp://ftp.daa.com.au/pub/james/python/ James Henstridge. == Email: james(a)daa.com.au WWW: http://www.daa.com.au/~james/ <A HREF="http://www.daa.com.au/~james/pygtk/">pygtk-0.6.0 and gnome-python-1.0.2</A> - bindings for the GTK+ widget set and GNOME libraries. (25-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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rsiidl module V0.01 released (interface with RSI's IDL programs)
by Holger Duerer May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

This is to announce the first release of a simple python module to interface with Reseach Systems's IDL programs. (IDL is their visualisation program and has nothing to do with CORBA IDL etc.) This first version allows only cooperation with the idlrpc server and only allows setting variables and executing commands in the server. (That is all I needed so far.) You will need IDL, NumPy and swig installed to build the module. Find this (and hopefully later versions) on my WWW page on the starship: http://starship.python.net/crew/holly/ The software is under the same copyright as python (I hope that I manged to copy the text fully and sufficicently). I would like to hear of any improvements you make or bugs you find. Enjoy! Holger == Holger D"urer / Universit"at Bremen, FB 3 / Postfach 330 440 / D - 28334 Bremen Tel.: +49 421 218-2867 | Fax.: +49 421 218-3404 | <H.Duerer(a)ZAIT.Uni-Bremen.DE> WWW: <http://www.zait.uni-bremen.de/Duerer/Holger.html> !*Esperanto*! PGP: Id: 6BB556A9 Fingerprint: D902A5ED94738B12 5128676B62A82486!* parolata*! <A HREF="http://starship.python.net/crew/holly/">rsiidl module 0.01</A> - Python interface to Reseach Systems's visualization program called IDL. (23-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Hear ye! Snippets! Python-DX 1.5.2!
by Hans Nowak May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

Howdy y'all, A short announcement: *) Python-DX, my Python version for DOS, is now updated to 1.5.2 (was: 1.5). The binaries are there, I will probably upload some makefiles too, and am still thinking about uploading the complete source somewhere (but I don't have so much homepage space, and the code really isn't that different from the original...) Go to http://www.cuci.nl/~hnowak/html/python-dx.html *) The Python Snippets page has been updated. It now has 62 snippets. Not really a vast collection yet, but it's growing. (And YOU can help, too. ;^) Of course it's still under construction, but the snippets should be visible all right. Go to http://www.hvision.nl/~ivnowa/snippets/ or http://browse.to/python.snippets Veel liefs, + Hans Nowak (Zephyr Falcon) + Homepage (under construction): http://www.cuci.nl/~hnowak/ + You call me a masterless man. You are wrong. I am my own master. + May Chickenlittle shoot at your college radio! <A HREF="http://www.cuci.nl/~hnowak/html/python-dx.html">Python-DX 1.5.2</A> - new version of Python for DOS. (22-Apr-99) <A HREF="http://www.hvision.nl/~ivnowa/snippets/">Python Snippets</A> - collection of Python code snippets/idioms (updated). (22-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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LLNL distribution 11 available
by Paul F. Dubois May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

xfiles.llnl.gov and ftp-icf.llnl.gov are now back up, and I have fought my way back through the security changes so I was able to fix the links to make them point to version 11. Versions 9 and 10 are also available via the ftp site. At version 11 the Windows distribution changes from a .exe file (an installer) to a .zip file that has a simple installation script you run with Python. This installation procedure requires Python 1.5. If you do not have Python 1.5 you will have to install by hand in whatever way you choose. Those of you who tried to use the link to LLNLDistribution.zip and failed were victims of the sudden LLNL shutdown, for which we are sorry. I also discovered that I had failed to upload the gifs and style sheet for the HTML version of the Numerical Python document. That is fixed too. Another reason to prefer PDF.(:->. <A HREF="ftp://ftp-icf.llnl.gov/pub/python/">LLNLPython 11</A> - new release of LLNL extensions (NumPy, RNG, Graphics, PyHistory, PyDB, CXX). (19-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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Python for OpenVMS
by claird＠Starbase.NeoSoft.COM May 5, 1999

May 5, 1999

See <URL:http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/refman/INTRO_REF.HTML>. I have no connection with this project, apart from enthusiasm. I'm posting this notice only because the project aparts to have the marketing effectiveness the world has come to expect of DEC. I haven't even yet taken the minimal step of contacting the maintainer, which I'm doing just now. Thanks to Geoff Eldridge, who reported on it in <URL:http://www.elj.com/>. == Cameron Laird http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/home.html claird(a)NeoSoft.com +1 281 996 8546 FAX <A HREF="http://www.decus.de/~zessin/docu/refman/INTRO_REF.HTML">PYVMS</A> - Manual: Python 1.5.1 for OpenVMS. (19-Apr-99) -- ----------- comp.lang.python.announce (moderated) ---------- Article Submission Address: python-announce(a)python.org Python Language Home Page: http://www.python.org/ Python Quick Help Index: http://www.python.org/Help.html ------------------------------------------------------------

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New JPython domain and website
by bwarsaw＠python.org April 30, 1999

April 30, 1999

JPython users, I'm please to announce the new Web site for JPython, the 100% Pure Java implementation of Python. Please come visit http://www.jpython.org/ and update your links. The old site <http://www.python.org/jpython/> still exists but it will not be updated and will eventually go away. My thanks to Cathy Rey of CNRI for her help in getting the new site looking so good. A few other notables: - I'm starting a new bugs database using Jitterbug. The old bug reports won't (yet?) be converted but you should use the new system to report any future bugs. The URL for this is http://www.jpython.org/jpython-bugs - The next release of JPython will be covered by a new license, which I believe is more "open". All existing releases of JPython are still covered under the old license, but there will be a new release soon. For more information, please see http://www.jpython.org/newlicenses.html We also have updated permission forms for contributions (which we're encouraging!). See http://www.jpython.org/bugrelease.html for more information. - I'd like to collect a list of JPython users, similar to the one maintained for Python itself. If you're interested in being listed, please see http://www.jpython.org/Users.html Enjoy, and stay tuned for announcements of the next release. -Barry

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pyca-0.4
by michael.stroeder＠propack-data.de April 27, 1999

April 27, 1999

HI! I would like to announce a new beta release of pyca, a set of scripts and CGI-BIN programs for setting up and running a certificate authority using OpenSSL. See http://sites.inka.de/ms/python/pyca/ for further details. Unfortunately thereŽs no real documentation available up to now and thereŽs still a lot to be done. Ciao, Michael. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org User Support Mailing List openssl-users(a)openssl.org Automated List Manager majordomo(a)openssl.org

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Python mailing lists are moving!
by Barry A. Warsaw April 22, 1999

April 22, 1999

This message is for folks who are currently receiving the the Python list traffic via python-list(a)cwi.nl or python-announce-list(a)cwi.nl, or would like to receive comp.lang.python or comp.lang.python.announce via email instead of Usenet. We are finally moving the mailing lists from cwi.nl to python.org. The lists at python.org will be managed by Mailman and will still be gatewayed to the Usenet newsgroups. We are not going to move people's subscriptions enmasse (yet). For the time being if you want to switch your subscription you should: 1) send an unsubscribe request to python-list-request(a)cwi.nl 2) Visit http://www.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list and fill out a subscription request (same goes for python-announce-list, just substitute `python-announce-list' for `python-list' above). At some point when the majority of people have moved over, and we've had the opportunity to stress the system with real traffic, we will move the remaining subscribers over to python.org, but we'll announce that before we do it. One advantage of moving to python-list(a)python.org is that you can set your Mailman subscription to deliver the messages in digests (MIME or `plain'). This is a nice middle ground between receiving the messages immediately as they are posted, and reading them via Usenet. Feel free to begin sending messages to the list via python-list(a)python.org. python-list(a)cwi.nl will become an alias for this new address. Enjoy, -Barry

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