Hi David,

Where can I check out the current developing verion?

Thanks.
- yzhang

On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Binger David 
wrote:

>
> On Apr 7, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Yong Zhang wrote:
>
>  Hi, Developers,
> >
> > I read the mails in this list, and find there are some bugs in Durus,
> > especially in Windows version.
> >
> > I just want to know: when the next release come out. And, is the project
> > still alive?
> >
>
> Hi.
>
> This project is still very much alive and we expect to get a release out
> in the next few months.  Here is the current changelog we're working
> with now for the next release, which will be version 3.8.  There are
> no known bugs in the development version, but testing of this version
> has only been on Linux and OS X so far.
>
> -----
>
> Revise all code so that it is functional in both python 2 and python 3.
> Note that this has not been tested much in python 3.   The python 3
> pickler code is a little different, so databases made with python 2 will
> require conversion before they can work with python 3.  We've
> added a script for this conversion.
>
> This release requires Python version 2.4 or later.
>
> Implement call_if_persistent and use it to guard calls to persistent_id()
> during pickling.  In one benchmark, this reduces commit() CPU time by 50%.
>
> Make ShelfStorage the default FileStorage implementation.
> The FileStorage2 implementation is supported in this release,
> but deprecated.
> To convert formats, use "python shelf.py old.durus new.durus".
>
> Add BTree.get_depth() and  BTree.get_node_count() so that it is possible
> to know something of the dimensions of a given BTree.
>
> Add BTree.set_bnode_minimum_degree() so that you control the depth of a
> BTree.
>
> Add Cache.__iter__(), so that it is easier to examine the objects
> currently
> in the cache.
>
> Implement __eq__() and __ne__() for PersistentDict, but remove __cmp__().
> Drop support for comparing a PersistentDict to a plain dict.
>
> Instead of using a set for recent_objects, use a special
> ReferenceContainer class.  This removes the necessity for
> persistent instances to be hashable.
>
> Remove the time-travel Connection from Durus.
>
> Add BitArray.items()
> Add Byte.byte()
> Remove ByteArray.__str__().
>
> Add byte_string to utils.
> Add join_bytes(), empty_byte_string, and as_bytes() to utils.
> Make write() call as_bytes() on the argument so that write(f, 'foo')
> works in python 2 and python 3.
> Add write_all() to utils so that callers don't need to concatenate
> their arguments.
>
> Add a flush() after every write() on Windows.
> This appears to fix a problem that shows up when using ShelfStorage.
> The problem was detected and fixed by Matthew Scott.  Thanks.
> Also change the nt implemention of obtain lock so that failure
> to obtain a lock raises an IOError, as on other systems, instead
> of a pywintypes.error.
>
> Patch imports to work on nt.  Posted by Sergio Alvarez.
>
> Fix bug in FileStorage constructor that would prevent a file from
> being opened as readonly when another process has it open readwrite.
>
> Add Shelf.items().
>
> Remove Storage.get_size(), FileStorage2.get_size().
>
> Remove support for calling _p_note_change() by assigning to
> the "_p_changed" attribute.  If your code uses the attribute-setting
> style, it should be updated to just call the method directly.
> The attribute-setting notation is riskier because you may set the wrong
> attribute, or set the right attribute on a non-persistent object,
> and get unexpected results.
>
>