[maemo-developers] New release of Python2.5 for Maemo (r0.4-13)

[From: Luciano Miguel Wolf]

I am pleased to announce Python2.5.1 for Maemo - r0.4-13 - OS2006/2007 
(*PyMaemo Chinook will be released tomorrow)

This new release is available from:
http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org

What's it?
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Python for Maemo (PyMaemo for short) main objective is to make possible 
to use Python programming language as the scripting and development 
language for Maemo Platform, providing a better alternative for fast 
prototyping and programming in Maemo environment besides the C 
programming language.

Python is for serious programming and to have fun. Python has a nice 
syntax, it's easy to learn and powerful enough for a vast range of 
applications, this is why we choose Python for Maemo.

What's changed?
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Note: OS2006 (gregale) has only bugfixes. More information on section 
"What's planned".

Bugfixes:
  - #946 - Enumerations not exported using glib-mkenums (Lauro Moura)
  - #988 - pyc files are installed instead pyo (Lauro Moura / Luciano Wolf)
  - #1000 - add pycurl - only OS2007 (Luciano Wolf)
  - #1040 - webbrowser.open(url) doesn't work (Lauro Moura)
  - #1070 - Unable to create a hildon_banner without an image (Lauro Moura)
  - #1084 - Fix pyg_constant_strip_prefix() to handle names without the 
given prefix (Lauro Moura)
  - #1520 - Add support for Tap and Hold in PyGtk (Lauro Moura)

New Modules:
  - pycurl
Updates:
  - New python-osso examples (see Examples link inside PyMaemo webpage)

What's planned?
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Next release is planned to have Cython and Storm support. The first one 
is a fork of Pyrex project, much more versatile and up to date. Storm is 
an object-relation mapper. [http://storm.canonical.com/]

In long term we plan to speed up Python using the Python Launcher, 
improve Pluthon (Eclipse plugin - http://pluthon.garage.maemo.org) and 
Easy Hildon (Python-based API to ease the development of applications - 
http://easy.garage.maemo.org). At OS2008 (Chinook) release we will 
discontinue PyMaemo for OS2006 (gregale) since its possible to use 
OS2007 HackerEdition inside 770 and we will focus our efforts on Chinook.

Acknowledgements:
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Thanks to everybody who helped making this release possible.

Bug reports, as always, should go to Bugzilla; check out
http://pymaemo.garage.maemo.org for links to posting and querying bug 
reports for PyMaemo.

Regards,
Luciano Wolf