[Pyobjc-dev] 0.9 pre-release

[Just v. R. <ju...@le...>]

Folks,

Ronald has prepared a pre-release of PyObjC 0.9:

  Binary: http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/prerelease/pyobjc-0.9.dmg
  Source: http://pyobjc.sourceforge.net/prerelease/pyobjc-0.9.tar.gz

Please give it a good beating. Ronald is on vacation for another 12 days
or so, it would be great to get gather some feedback before he gets back
so we can do a proper public release a.s.a.p. Actually, he mentioned it
should be ready for release as-is, but Bill wants to do a couple more
things. Maybe a release can even be done before Ronald gets back.

Here's the 0.9 snippet from the NEWS file:

Version 0.9 (April-??-2003):
- This version includes numerous bugfixes and improvements.

- The module AppKit.NibClassBuilder has been moved to the package
  PyObjCTools.

- Usage of libFFI (http://sources.redhat.com/libffi) is now mandatory.
  The setup.py gives the impression that it isn't, but we do *not*
  support non-FFI builds.

- We actually have some documentation, more will be added in future
  releases.

- There are more Project Builder templates (see 'Project Templates').

- The InterfaceBuilder, PreferencePanes and ScreenSaver frameworks have
  been wrapped.

- Management of reference counts is now completely automatic, it is no
  longer necessary to manually compensate for the higher reference count
  of objects returned by the alloc, copy and copyWithZone: class
  methods.

- Various function and keyword arguments have been renamed for a better 
  integration with Cocoa. A partial list is of the changed names is:
    objc.lookup_class -> objc.lookUpClass
    objc.selector arguments/attributes:
        is_initializer -> isInitializer
        is_allocator -> isAlloc
        donates_ref -> doesDonateReference
        is_required -> isRequired
        class_method -> isClassMethod
        defining_class -> definingClass
        returns_self -> returnsSelf
        argument_types -> argumentTypes
        return_type -> returnType
    objc.get_class_list -> objc.getClassList

- On Python 2.2, objc.YES and objc.NO are instances of a private
boolean type, on Python 2.3 these are instances of the builtin type
bool.


Just