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Termination of the development effort

I would like to inform the Python community that I have discontinued the development effort of PyWeakReference C++ extension module, as Python now supports weak references out of the box.

I would like to thank every one who supported the effort of introducing weak references into Python!

For those of you who made use of my extension module and do not feel like switching to Python's weakref module, I would like to say that it is not a good idea! Although, I will be more then glad to answer your questions or even fix a bug or two, I DO NOT INTEND to continue working on my ext. module. Please CONSIDER USING Python's WEAKREF module.... read more

Posted by Alex Shindich 2001-03-19

Conversion to "C" is complete; Beta 2 is out

I have successfully finished the process of converting the source code to "C". Weak Reference extension is completely CPython compatible now.

Posted by Alex Shindich 2000-12-05

Port to "C" is almost complete

I am almost done converting this module to "C".
The "C" release is expected this week.
Stay tuned... ;)

Posted by Alex Shindich 2000-11-29

Beta 1.0 is now available

The project has better documentation now.

Posted by Alex Shindich 2000-11-15

First Pre-Alpha Release

The first pre-alpha release is now available.
See the documentation and samples in the Doc subdirectory of the zip file.
The zip file contains source code only.
The code was tested on Windows and Linux 6.2 platforms.

Posted by Alex Shindich 2000-11-12

A Weak Reference C++ extension for Python 2.0

Coming soon…
This project presents a Weak Reference C++ extension for CPython 2.0.
More information will be posted soon.

The following is the license for the software:
The author, Alex Shindich, is making this software available on an "AS IS" basis.
There are no warranties regarding this software. Use it at your own risk!
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted without
any restrictions.

Posted by Alex Shindich 2000-10-10
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