[Pydispatcher-cvs] dispatch/docs index.html,1.4,1.5

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Update of /cvsroot/pydispatcher/dispatch/docs
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv10644

Modified Files:
	index.html 
Log Message:
Clarification and expansion of notes regarding the two weakref bugs.

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RCS file: /cvsroot/pydispatcher/dispatch/docs/index.html,v
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  <html>
  <head>
!   <meta http-equiv="content-type"
!  content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
    <title>Python Dispatch Package</title>
!   <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/sitestyle.css">
!   <meta name="author" content="Patrick K. O'Brien">
  </head>
  <body>
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  <html>
  <head>
!   <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
!  http-equiv="content-type">
    <title>Python Dispatch Package</title>
!   <link href="style/sitestyle.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet">
!   <meta content="Patrick K. O'Brien" name="author">
  </head>
  <body>
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  <p class="introduction">PyDispatcher provides the Python programmer
  with a multiple-producer-multiple-consumer signal-registration and
! routing infrastructure for use in multiple contexts.&nbsp; The mechanism
  of PyDispatcher started life as a highly rated <a
   href="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/87056">recipe</a>
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  <p class="introduction">PyDispatcher provides the Python programmer
  with a multiple-producer-multiple-consumer signal-registration and
! routing infrastructure for use in multiple contexts.&nbsp; The
! mechanism
  of PyDispatcher started life as a highly rated <a
   href="http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/87056">recipe</a>
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  the module to a directory on your PythonPath.<br>
  </p>
! <p class="technical">Due to problems with the Python 2.2.2 (and
! earlier) weak reference implementation, it is <strong>strongly
! recommended</strong> that you use <strong>Python 2.2.3</strong> or later
! when using PyDispatcher.<br>
  </p>
  <h2>Documentation</h2>
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  the module to a directory on your PythonPath.<br>
  </p>
! <p class="technical">PyDispatcher represents one of the more involved
! usage patterns for Python weakref objects. We have discovered a few
! problems in weakref operation of which users of the package should be
! aware.<br>
! </p>
! <p class="technical">Python 2.2.2 (and
! earlier) weak reference implementations have a subtle <a
!  href="https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=5470&amp;atid=105470&amp;func=detail&amp;aid=742911">bug</a>
! in their weakref destructor code which can cause memory access errors
! (aka segfaults) on program shutdown.&nbsp; If you are using Python 2.2,
! it is <strong>strongly
! recommended</strong> that you use <strong>Python 2.2.3</strong> or
! later
! when using PyDispatcher.&nbsp; Note that this will not address the
! following issue.<br>
! </p>
! <p class="technical">Python 2.3.2 (and earlier) has a different (even
! more subtle) <a
!  href="http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/python/python/dist/src/Modules/gc_weakref.txt?rev=2.1&amp;view=auto">bug</a>
! in the weakref destructor code which, again, can cause segfaults.&nbsp;
! If you are using Python 2.3, it is <strong>strongly
! recommended</strong> that you use <strong>Python 2.3.3</strong> or
! later
! when using PyDispatcher.&nbsp; This bug-fix will not be ported back to
! the Python 2.2.x branch, so if you are using Python 2.2.3 you may
! encounter this situation.
  </p>
  <h2>Documentation</h2>
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  </p>
  <p class="footer">A SourceForge Open-Source project: <a
!  href="http://sourceforge.net"><img
!  src="http://sourceforge.net/sflogo.php?group_id=79755&amp;type=1"
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!  alt="SourceForge" title="" align="middle" width="88" height="31"
!  border="0"></a></p>
  </body>
  </html>
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  </p>
  <p class="footer">A SourceForge Open-Source project: <a
!  href="http://sourceforge.net"><img border="0" height="31" width="88"
!  align="middle" title="" alt="SourceForge"
   style="border: 0px solid ; width: 88px; height: 31px;"
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  </body>
  </html>