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| author | David Beazley <dave@dabeaz.com> | 2022-01-08 20:18:28 -0600 |
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| committer | David Beazley <dave@dabeaz.com> | 2022-01-08 20:18:28 -0600 |
| commit | 4378de314b11d2bc75990194f1f3425c473f4e86 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d5c88f96f1cf61a48acdca61873d2140b51dc77 /CHANGES | |
| parent | 1413aa2cdb99a2b0a39f74769c4c11110d2f9a76 (diff) | |
| download | ply-4378de314b11d2bc75990194f1f3425c473f4e86.tar.gz | |
cleanup/project reorganization
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@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@ -Current Version ---------------- IMPORTANT NOTE (2018-12-22): PLY is no longer be released in any package-installable format. If you want to use the latest version, you need to COPY the contents of the ply/ directory into your own project @@ -8,26 +6,25 @@ maintained as a mature library. No new major features are planned, but issues reported for bugs are still welcome. Any changes to the software will be noted here. -Version 4.0 (In progress) -------------------------- -Note: The 4.0 series of PLY represents a massive cleanup and modernization -effort. At a fundamental level, no new "features" are being added. -Instead, a lot of outdated, inconsistent, and problematic features are -being eliminated. Here is a short summary: +Version 2022_01_02 +------------------ +12/12/21 PLY is no longer being developed in public. Instead + periodic versions will be posted. In general, there has + been an effort at cleanup and modernization. + Here is a short summary of major changes: - - PLY no longer writes table files or cached data. If you want this, - it's your responsibility to serialize the parser tables. Use pickle. + - PLY no longer writes table files or cached data. If you want this, + it's your responsibility to serialize the parser tables. Use pickle. - - Elimination of side-effects and global variables (generally). + - Elimination of side-effects and global variables (generally). - - Elimination of numerous optional features in an effort to - simplify the API. + - Elimination of numerous optional features in an effort to + simplify the API. - - More use of modern Python features including iterators/generators, - keyword-only arguments, f-strings, etc. + - More use of modern Python features including iterators/generators, + keyword-only arguments, f-strings, etc. - - Dropped support for Python 2.x ------------------------- + - Dropped support for Python 2.x 01/26/20 PLY no longer writes cached table files. Honestly, the use of the cached files made more sense when I was developing PLY on |