Rule-based Dispatching and Generic Functions. The dispatch module
allows Python programmers to write generic functions to handle
various problems based on rules for the arguments it receives.
"go ahead" (after some nice tweaks, actually) steven@
PyProtocols extends the PEP 246 adapt() function with a new
"declaration API" that lets you easily define your own protocols
and adapters, and declare what adapters should be used to adapt
what types, objects, or protocols. In addition to its own Interface
type, PyProtocols can also use Twisted and Zope's Interface types.
"go ahead" (after some nice tweaks, actually) steven@
Use class and function decorators -- even in Python 2.3 (now with
source debugging for generated code)! Want to use decorators, but
still need to support Python 2.3? Wish you could have class decorators,
decorate arbitrary assignments, or match decorated function signatures
to their original functions? Then you need "DecoratorTools".
"looks good" steven@
Some autoconf fallout in generated documentation (and one source
file), so bump the PKGNAME. They even changed the default installation
path of the manpage, which requires an additional tweak to
CONFIGURE_ARGS.
No functional changes; same result for regression tests as before.
While here, force configure to use our grep and the one true awk,
even if g{grep,awk} are installed.
This time, the userland tools and libraries are being ported from NetBSD
(which in turn is also based on FreeBSD code). Both packages represent
work in progress and are not fully functional yet.
ok jasper@ for the new ports, grange@ for taking over maintainership
unittest, one that is intended to mimic the behavior of py.test as
much as is reasonably possible without resorting to too much magic.
similar diffs from niallo@ and Will Maier
ok steven@ (who also had REGRESS_DEPENDS fix) and niallo@
