[reportlab-users] The upcoming Reportlab 1.18 release and patches.

[John Precedo]

We are planning to do a new release of the Reportlab open source toolkit
early this week.

For a number of reasons, this 1.18 release will be the "last of it's kind",
and will be a stable staging post while we make changes. After this we plan
to drop support for Python 1.5.2, 2.0.x and 2.1.x (we'll be moving to being
compliant with Python 2.2). We don't object to a branch being created for
anyone who needs 1.5.2 compliance - if anyone wants to maintain it let us
know and we'll make the branch.

We will also be making changes to the build technology we use to produce our
releases.

Since it may be a while until the next release, we need to make sure about
patches. These are the ones which we know about since the Version 1.17 was
released in January 2003. If you have any more information about the ones
not done, please let us know. If you haven't got the information to us soon
and it won't go in. We are going to be doing this release tomorrow morning,
so you'd better hurry.

This list shows the date we got the email, the subject line of the email
which contained the patch and who sent it.

PATCHES WHICH HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED:
- Mon 16/06/2003
  Patch to allow use without file
  David Fraser [davidf@sjsoft.com]

- Fri 02/05/2003
  Relative indents, nested lists and reST
  Sidnei da Silva [sidnei@x3ng.com]

Thanks to David and Sidnei for submitting these!

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John Precedo  (johnp@reportlab.com)    Developer
Reportlab Europe Ltd  (http://www.reportlab.com)