[ZODB-Dev] RFC: release persistent as a standalone package

[Tres Seaver]

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I have completed the work needed to make 'persistent' distributable
as a standalone package.  The effort (begun almost four years ago!)
includes the following highlights:

Platform Changes
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- - Added explicit support for Python 3.2 and PyPy.

  - Note that the C implementations of Persistent, PickleCache, and
    Timestamp are not built (yet) on these platforms.

- - Dropped explicit support for Python < 2.6.

- - Completed pure-Python reference implementations of 'Persistent',
  'PickleCache', and 'TimeStamp'.

Testing Changes
- ---------------

- - 100% unit test coverage.

- - All covered platforms tested under 'tox'.

- - Refactored some doctests as unittests.

- - Removed all 'ZODB'-dependent tests:

  - Rewrote some to avoid the dependency

  - Cloned the remainder into new 'ZODB.tests' modules on the ZODB
    trunk.

- - Added support for continuous integration using 'tox' and 'jenkins'.

- - Added 'setup.py dev' alias (installs 'nose' and 'coverage').

- - Dropped dependency on 'zope.testing' / 'zope.testrunner':  tests now
  run with 'setup.py test'.

Documentation Changes
- ---------------------

- - Refactored many doctests as Sphinx documentation
  (snippets are exercised via 'tox').

- - Added 'setup.py docs' alias (installs 'Sphinx' and
  'repoze.sphinx.autointerface').


I would like to release a '4.0.0' version of the package, and switch
the ZODB trunk to pull it in as a dependency (deleting the currently
included (older) copy of persistent).  One possible issue is that I
have not (yet) made the C extensions work under Python 3.2:  I don't
know whether that should be a blocker for a release.

Comments?


Tres.
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Tres Seaver          +1 540-429-0999          tseaver at palladion.com
Palladion Software   "Excellence by Design"    http://palladion.com
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