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ChangeLog for logilab.common
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2008-09-08  --  0.32.0
    * testlib: added a assertIs test assertion
    * textutils: add the apply_unit fonction
    * testlib: added a assertXMLEqualsTuple test assertion
    * added a assertIs test

2008-05-08  --  0.31.0
    * improved documentation and error messages
    * testlib: support a msg argument on more assertions, pysqlite2 as default
    * pytest: pytestconf.py for customization

2008-03-26  --  0.30.0
    * db: remember logged user on the connection
    * clcommands: commands may be hidden (eg not displayed in help), generic
      ListCommandsCommand useful to build bash completion helpers 
    * changelog: module to parse ChangeLog file as this one, backported from
      logilab.devtools
	
2008-03-12  --  0.29.1
    * date: new nb_open_days function counting worked days between two date
    * adbh: add -p option to mysql commands to ask for password
	
2008-03-05  --  0.29.0
    * adbh: mysql doesn't support ILIKE, implement list_indices for mysql
    * db: mysql adapter use mx DateTime when available, fix unicode handling
	
2008-02-18  --  0.28.2
    * testlib: restore python2.3 compatiblity

2008-02-15  --  0.28.1
    * testlib: introduce InnerTest class to name generative tests, fix
      generative tests description storage
    * pytest: fix -s option
    * modutils: included Stefan Rank's patch to deal with 2.4 relative import
    * configuration: don't give option's keywords not recognized by optparse,
      fix merge_options function

2008-02-05  --  0.28.0
    * date: new `add_days_worked` function
    * shellutils: new `chown` function
    * testlib: new `strict` argument to assertIsInstance
    * __init__: new `attrdict` and `nullobject` classes
	
2008-01-25  --  0.27.0
    * deprecation: new class_moved utility function
    * interface: fix subinterface handling

	
2008-01-10  --  0.26.1
    * optparser: support --version at main command level
    * testlib: added man page for pytest
    * textutils: fix a bug in normalize_[rest_]paragraph which may cause
      infinite loop if an indent string containing some spaces is given
	
2008-01-07  --  0.26.0
    * db: binarywrap support
    * modutils: new LazyObject class

	
2007-12-20  --  0.25.2
    * adbh: new needs_from_clause variable on db helper
	
2007-12-11  --  0.25.1
    * pytest: new --profile option, setup module / teardown module hook,
	      other fixes and enhancements
    * db: mysql support fixes
    * adbh: fix postgres list_indices implementation
	
2007-11-26  --  0.25.0
    * adbh:
      - list_tables implementation for sqlite
      - new list_indices, create_index, drop_index methods
    * restore python < 2.4 compat

	
2007-10-29  --  0.24.0
    * decorators: new classproperty decorator
    * adbh: new module containing advanced db helper which were in the "db"
      module, with additional registered procedures handling 

	
2007-10-23  --  0.23.1
    * modutils: fix load_module_from_* (even with use_sys=False, it should
      try to get outer packages from sys.modules)

2007-10-17  --  0.23.0
    * db:
	
      - mark support_users and support_groups methods as obsolete in
        favor of users_support and groups_support attributes
      - new ilike_support property on dbms helpers
      - extended db helper api
      - completed mysql support
	
    * textutils: new unormalize function to normalize diacritical chars by
      their ascii equivalent
    * modutils: new load_module_from_file shortcut function
    * clcommands: pop_args accept None as value for expected_size_after,
      meaning remaining args should not be checked
    * interface: new extend function to dynamically add an implemented interface
      to a new style class	

	
2007-06-25  --  0.22.2
    * new 'typechanged' action for configuration.read_old_config

2007-05-14  --  0.22.1
    * important bug fix in db.py
    * added history in pytest debugger sessions
    * fix pytest coverage bug
    * fix textutils test
    * fix a bug which provoqued a crash if devtools was not installed

2007-05-14  --  0.22.0
    * pytest improvements
    * shellutils: use shutil.move instead of os.rename as default action
      of mv
    * db: new `list_users` and `sql_drop_unique_constraint` methods on
      advanced helpers
    * deprecation: new `obsolete` decorator

	
2007-02-12  --  0.21.3
    * fixed cached decorator to use __dict__ instead of attribute lookup,
      avoiding potential bugs with inheritance when using cached class 
      methods

2007-02-05  --  0.21.2
    * fix ReST normalization (#3471)

2006-12-19  --  0.21.1
    * tree: make Node iterable (iter on its children)
    * configuration: fix #3197 (OptionsManagerMixin __init__ isn't passing
      correctly its "version" argument) 
    * textutils: new 'rest' argument to normalize_text to better deal with
      ReST formated text
    * some packaging fixes
	
2006-11-14  --  0.21.0
    * db:
	
      - new optional keepownership argument to backup|restore_database methods
      - only register mxDatetime converters on psycopg2 adapter if
        mx.DateTime is available
	
    * moved some stuff which was in common __init__ file into specific
      module. At this occasion new "decorators" and "deprecation" modules
      has been added
    * deprecated fileutils.[files_by_ext,include_files_by_ext,exclude_files_by_ext]
      functions in favor of new function shellutils.find	
    * mark the following modules for deprecation, they will be removed in a
      near version:
    * astutils: moved to astng
    * bind (never been used)
    * html: deprecated
    * logger/logservice: use logging module
    * monclient/monserver (not used anymore)
    * patricia (never been used)
    * twisted_distutils (not used anymore)
    * removed the following functions/methods which have been deprecated for a
      while now:
    * modutils.load_module_from_parts
    * textutils.searchall
    * tree.Node.leafs
    * fileutils.get_by_ext, filetutils.get_mode, fileutils.ensure_mode
    * umessage: more robust charset handling


2006-11-03  --  0.20.2
    * fileutils: new remove_dead_links function
    * date: add missing strptime import

2006-11-01  --  0.20.1
    * umessage:
      - new message_from_string function
      - fixed get_payload encoding bug
    * db: default postgres module is now psycopg2, which has been customized
      to return mx.Datetime objects for date/time related types
	
2006-10-27  --  0.20.0
    * db:
      - fixed date handling
      - new methods on advanced helper to generate backup commands
    * configuration: basic deprecated config handling support
    * new implementation of pytest
    * backport a dot backend from yams into a new "graph" module


2006-10-03  --  0.19.3
    * fixed bug in textutils.normalise_[text|paragraph] with unsplitable
      word larger than the maximum line size
    * added pytest.bat for windows installation
    * changed configuration.generate_config to include None values into the
      generated file

2006-09-25  --  0.19.2
    * testlib:
      - fixed a bug in find_test making it returns some bad test names
      - new assertIsInstance method on TestCase
    * optik_ext: make it works if mx.DateTime is not installed, in which case
      the date type option won't be available
    * test fixes

2006-09-22  --  0.19.1
    * db:
	
      - fixed bug when querying boolean on sqlite using python's bool type
      - fixed time handling and added an adapter for DateTimeDeltaType
      - added "drop_on_commit" argument to create_temporary_table on db helper
      - added missing implementation of executemany on pysqlite2 wrapper to 
        support pyargs correctly like execute
	
    * optik_ext: fixed "named" type option to support csv values and to return
      a dictionary
	
2006-09-05  --  0.19.0
    * new umessage module which provides a class similar to the standard
      email.Message class but returning unicode strings
    * new clcommands module to handle commands based command line tool
      (based on the configuration module)
    * new "date" otion type in optik_ext
    * new AttrObject in testlib to create objects in test with arbitrary attributes
    * add pytest to run project's tests and get rid of all runtests.py
    * add pytest option to enable design-by-contract using aspects
    * some enhancements to the configuration module


2006-08-09  --  0.18.0
    * added -c / --capture option to testlib.unittest_main
    * fixed bugs in lgc.configuration
    * optparser: added a OptionParser that extends optparse's with commands


2006-07-13  --  0.17.0
    * python2.5 compatibility (testlib.py + compat.py)
    * testlib.assertListEquals return all errors at once
    * new "password" option type in optik_ext
    * configuration: refactored to support interactive input of a configuration
	

2006-06-08  --  0.16.1
    * testlib: improved test collections
    * compat: added cmp argument to sorted

2006-05-19  --  0.16.0
    * testlib:
	
      - added a set of command line options (PYDEBUG is deprecated,
        use the -i/--pdb option, and added -x/--exitfirst option)
      - added support for generative tests
	
    * db:
	
      - fix get_connection parameter order and host/port handling
      - added .sql_temporary_table method to advanced func helpers
      - started a psycopg2 adapter
	
    * configuration: enhanced to handle default value in help and man pages
      generation (require python >= 2.4)

	
2006-04-25  --  0.15.1
    * db: add missing port handling to get_connection function and
      dbapimodule.connect methods
    * testlib: various fixes and minor improvments
	
2006-03-28  --  0.15.0
    * added "cached" decorator and a simple text progression bar into __init__
    * added a simple text progress bar into __init__
    * configuration: fixed man page generation when using python 2.4
    * db: added pysqllite2 support, preconfigured to handle timestamp using
      mxDatetime and to correctly handle boolean types

	
2006-03-06  --  0.14.1
    * backported file support and add LOG_CRIT to builtin in logservice module
	
2006-02-28  --  0.14.0
    * renamed assertXML*Valid to assertXML*WellFormed and deprecated the old name
    * fixed modutils.load_module_from_*

	
2006-02-03  --  0.13.1
    * fix some tests, patch contributed by  Marien Zwart
    * added ability to log into a file with make_logger()
	
2006-01-06  --  0.13.0
    * testlib: ability to skip a test
    * configuration:
	
      - cleaner configuration file generation
      - refactoring so that we can have more control on file
        configuration loading using read_config_file and load_config_file
        instead of load_file_configuration
	
    * modutils: fix is_relative to return False when from_file is a file
      located somewhere in sys.path
    * ureport: new "escaped" attribute on Text nodes, controling html escaping
    * compat: make set iterable and support more other set operations...
    * removed the astng sub-package, since it's now self-distributed as
      logilab-astng


2005-09-06  --  0.12.0
    * shellutils: bug fix in mv()
    * compat:
 	  - use set when available
	  - added sorted and reversed
    * table: new methods and some optimizations
    * tree: added some deprecation warnings


2005-07-25  --  0.11.0
    * db: refactoring, added sqlite support, new helpers to support DBMS
      specific features


2005-07-07  --  0.10.1
    * configuration: added basic man page generation feature
    * ureports: unicode handling, some minor fixes
    * testlib: enhance MockConnection
    * python2.2 related fixes in configuration and astng

2005-05-04  --  0.10.0
    * astng: improve unit tests coverage
    * astng.astng: fix Function.format_args, new method
      Function.default_value, bug fix in Node.resolve
    * astng.builder: handle classmethod and staticmethod as decorator,
      handle data descriptors when building from living objects
    * ureports:
	
      - new docbook formatter
      - handle ReST like urls in the text writer
      - new build_summary utility function

	
2005-04-14  --  0.9.3
    * optik_ext: add man page generation based on optik/optparse options
      definition
    * modutils: new arguments to get_source_file to handle files without
      extensions
    * astng: fix problem with the manager and python 2.2 (optik related)
	
2005-02-16  --  0.9.2
    * textutils:
	
      - added epydoc documentation
      - new sep argument to the get_csv function
      - fix pb with normalize_* functions on windows platforms

    * fileutils:
	
      - added epydoc documentation
      - fixed bug in get_by_ext (renamed files_by_ext) with the
        exclude_dirs argument

    * configuration:

      - fixed a bug in configuration file generation on windows platforms
      - better test coverage
	
    * fixed testlib.DocTest which wasn't working anymore with recent
      versions of pyunit
    * added "context_file" argument to file_from_modpath to avoid
      possible relative import problems
    * astng: use the new context_file argument from Node.resolve()
	
2005-02-04  --  0.9.1
    * astng:
	
      - remove buggy print
      - fixed builder to deal with builtin methods
      - fixed raw_building.build_function with python 2.4
	
    * modutils: code cleanup, some reimplementation based on "imp",
      better handling of windows specific extensions, epydoc documentation
    * fileutils: new exclude_dirs argument to the get_by_ext function
    * testlib: main() support -p option to run test in a profiled mode
    * generated documentation for modutils in the doc/ subdirectory
	
2005-01-20  --  0.9.0
    * astng:
	
      - refactoring of some huge methods
      - fix interface resolving when __implements__ is defined in a parent
        class in another module
      - add special code in the builder to fix problem with qt
      - new source_line method on Node
      - fix sys.path during parsing to avoid some failure when trying
        to get imported names by `from module import *`, and use an astng
        building instead of exec'ing the statement
      - fix possible AttributeError with Function.type 
      - manager.astng_from_file fallback to astng_from_module if possible
	
    * textutils: fix bug in normalize_paragraph, unquote handle empty string
      correctly
    * modutils:

      - use a cache in has_module to speed up things when heavily used
      - fix file_from_modpath to handle pyxml and os.path

    * configuration: fix problem with serialization/deserialization of empty
      string

	  
2005-01-04  --  0.8.0
    * modutils: a lot of fixes/rewrite on various functions to avoid
      unnecessary imports, sys.path pollution, and other bugs (notably
      making plylint reporting wrong modules name/path)
    * astng: new "inspector" module, initially taken from pyreverse code
      (http://www.logilab.org/projects/pyreverse), miscellaneous bug fixes
    * configuration: new 'usage' parameter on the Configuration
      initializer
    * logger: unicode support
    * fileutils: get_by_ext also ignore ".svn" directories, not only "CVS"


2004-11-03  --  0.7.1
    * astng:
	
      - don't raise a syntax error on files missing a trailing \n.
      - fix utils.is_abstract (was causing an unexpected exception if a
        string exception was raised).
      - fix utils.get_implemented.
      - fix file based manager's cache problem.

    * textutils: fixed normalize_text / normalize_paragraph functions

2004-10-11  --  0.7.0
    * astng: new methods on the manager, returning astng with nodes for
      packages (ie recursive structure instead of the flat one), with
      automatic lazy loading + introduction of a dict like interface to
      manipulate those nodes and Module, Class and Function nodes.
    * logservice: module imported from the ginco project
    * configuration: added new classes Configuration and
      OptionsManager2Configuration adapter, fix bug in loading options
      from file
    * optik_ext/configuration: some new option type "multiple_choice"
    * fileutils: new ensure_mode function
    * compat: support for sum and enumerate


2004-09-23  --  0.6.0
    * db: added DBAPIAdapter
    * textutils: fix in pretty_match causing malformated messages in pylint
      added ansi colorization management
    * modutils: new functions get_module_files, has_module and file_from_modpath
    * astng: some new utility functions taken from pylint, minor changes to the
      manager API, Node.resolve doesn't support anymore "living" resolution,
      some new methods on astng nodes
    * compat: new module for a transparent compatibility layer between
      different python version (actually 2.2 vs 2.3 for now)


2004-07-08  --  0.5.2
    * astng: fix another bug in klassnode.ancestors() method...
    * db: fix mysql access
    * cli: added a space after the prompt

2004-06-04  --  0.5.1
    * astng: fix undefined var bug in klassnode.ancestors() method
    * ureports: fix attributes on title layout
    * packaging:fix the setup.py script to allow bdist_winst (well, the
      generated installer has not been tested...) with the necessary
      logilab/__init__.py file

2004-05-10  --  0.5.0
    * ureports: new Universal Reports sub-package
    * xmlrpcutils: new xmlrpc utilities module
    * astng: resolve(name) now handle (at least try) builtins
    * astng: fixed Class.as_string (empty paren when no base classes)
    * astng.builder: knows a litle about method descriptors, Functin with
      unknown arguments have argnames==None.
    * fileutils: new is_binary(filename) function
    * textutils: fixed some Windows bug
    * tree: base not doesn't have the "title" attribute anymore
    * testlib: removed the spawn function (who used that ?!), added MockSMTP,
      MockConfigParser, MockConnexion and DocTestCase (test class for
      modules embeding doctest). All mocks objects are very basic and will be
      enhanced as the need comes.
    * testlib: added a TestCase class with some additional methods then
      the regular unittest.TestCase class
    * cli: allow specifying a command prefix by a class attributes,more
      robust, print available commands on help
    * db: new "binary" function to get the binary wrapper for a given driver,
      and new "system_database" function returning the system database name
      for different DBMS.
    * configuration: better group control


2004-02-20  --  0.4.5
    * db: it's now possible to fix the modules search order. By default call
      set_isolation_level if psycopg is used

2004-02-17  --  0.4.4
    * modutils: special case for os.path in get_module_part
    * astng: handle special case where we are on a package node importing a module
      using the same name as the package, which may end in an infinite loop
      on relative imports in Node.resolve
    * fileutils: new get_by_ext function

2004-02-11  --  0.4.3
    * astng: refactoring of Class.ancestor_for_* methods (now
      depends on python 2.2 generators)
    * astng: make it more robust
    * configuration: more explicit exception when a bad option is
      provided
    * configuration: define a short version of an option using the "short"
      keyword, taking a single letter as value
    * configuration: new method global_set_option on the manager
    * testlib : allow no "suite" nor "Run" function in test modules
    * shellutils: fix bug in *mv*

2003-12-23  --  0.4.2
    * added Project class and some new methods to the ASTNGManger
    * some new functions in astng.utils
    * fixed bugs in some as_string methods
    * fixed bug in textutils.get_csv
    * fileutils.lines now take a "comments" argument, allowing to ignore
      comment lines

2003-11-24  --  0.4.1
    * added missing as_string methods on astng nodes
    * bug fixes on Node.resolve
    * minor fixes in textutils and fileutils
    * better test coverage (need more !)

2003-11-13  --  0.4.0
    * new textutils and shellutils modules
    * full astng rewrite, now based on the compiler.ast package from the
      standard library
    * added next_sbling and previous_sibling methods to Node
    * fix get_cycles


2003-10-14  --  0.3.5
    * fixed null size cache bug
    * added 'sort_by_column*' methods for tables

2003-10-08  --  0.3.4
    * fix bug in asntg, occuring with python2.3 and modules including an
      encoding declaration
    * fix bug in astutils.get_rhs_consumed_names, occuring in lists
      comprehension
    * remove debug print statement from configuration.py which caused a
      generation of incorrect configuration files.

2003-10-01  --  0.3.3
    * fix bug in modutils.modpath_from_file
    * new module corbautils

2003-09-18  --  0.3.2
    * fix bug in modutils.load_module_from_parts
    * add missing __future__ imports

2003-09-18  --  0.3.1
    * change implementation of modutils.load_module_from_name (use find_module
      and load_module instead of __import__)
    * more bug fixes in astng
    * new functions in fileutils (lines, export) and __init__ (Execute)

2003-09-12  --  0.3
    * expect "def suite" or "def Run(runner=None)" on unittest module
    * fixes in modutils
    * major fixes in astng
    * new fileutils and astutils modules
    * enhancement of the configuration module
    * new option type "named" in optik_the ext module


2003-06-18  --  0.2.2
    * astng bug fixes

2003-06-04  --  0.2.1
    * bug fixes
    * fix packaging problem

2003-06-02  --  0.2.0
    * add the interface, modutils, optik_ext and configuration modules
    * add the astng sub-package
    * miscellaneous fixes


2003-04-17  --  0.1.2
    * add the stringio module
    * minor fixes

2003-02-28  --  0.1.1
    * fix bug in tree.py
    * new file distutils_twisted

2003-02-17  --  0.1.0
    * initial revision