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

[Robin Becker]

In article <GBEDIFFLINCAGNCJCLIFIEDPEKAA.johnp@reportlab.com>, John
Precedo <johnp@reportlab.com> writes
>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!
>
Henning von Bargen's case sensitivity patch for paragraph/xpreformatted
and Christoph Zwerschke's special entities patches are also definitely
in. I'm almost sure some changes that have been made to tables.py were
inspired elsewhere, but I've forgotten by whom.
-- 
Robin Becker