Hi all --

before Neil checks in his big scary backwards-incompatible "markup
string" patch, I want to get the current stable code out the door as
Quixote 0.5.1.  It's almost ready; just a few i's to dot and t's to
cross.  If you would like to give the almost-releasable code a spin, you
can get it via CVS:

  cvs -d :pserver:anon@cvs.mems-exchange.org:/home/cvs co quixote

Or see

  http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/quixote/cvs.html

Here's the provisional changelog for this release:

0.5.1 (xx Oct 2002):

  * (incompatible change for anyone doing HTTP upload with Quixote)
    Improved support for HTTP upload requests: any HTTP request with
    a Content-Type of "multipart/form-data" -- which is generally only
    used for uploads -- is now represented by HTTPUploadRequest, a
    subclass of HTTPRequest, and the uploaded files themselves are
    represented by Upload objects.  See doc/upload.txt for details.

  * (possible incompatible changes for anyone subclassing Publisher)
    Various rearrangements and refactoring in the Publisher class.
    Added create_request() method, which takes responsibility for
    creating the HTTPRequest (or HTTPUploadRequest) object away
    from parse_request().  As a consequence, the signature of
    parse_request() has changed.  Added process_request() method.
    Changed publish() so it catches exceptions coming from either
    parse_request() or process_request().  Consult the source code
    (publish.py) for details.

  * A new subpackage, quixote.server, is intended for code that
    publishes a Quixote application through HTTP, making it possible
    to run Quixote applications without having to configure Apache or
    some other full-blown Web server.  Right now there's only an
    implementation on top of Medusa; contributions of support for
    Python's BaseHTTPServer, Twisted, or other frameworks would be
    welcome.

  * Modified SessionManager.maintain_session() so it explicitly removes
    a session if that session used to have useful info (ie. exists in
    the session manager), but no longer does (patch by Jon Corbet).

  * Make the PTL compiler a bit smarter about recognizing "template"
    lines; PTL code should now be able to use 'template' as an
    identifier, which is handy when converting existing Python code
    to PTL.

  * Replaced HTTPRequest.redirect() with a cleaner, more general
    version supplied by Andreas Kostyrka .
    Redirects to fully relative URLs (no leading slash) now work.

  * Added support for putting bits of JavaScript into HTML form
    documents: added HTTPResponse.add_javascript() to collect snippts
    of JavaScript code, and Form._render_javascript() to emit them
    as part of the HTML document.

  * Added global convenience functions get_path() and redirect().

  * Change Publisher so it never modifies SCRIPT_NAME or PATH_INFO.

  * Fixed bug in quixote.sendmail._add_recip_headers(): it crashed
    if passed an empty list.


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Greg Ward - software developer                gward@mems-exchange.org
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