Version 2.0.5 ============= :Released: 2015-02-02 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Refine compatibility of exceptions for file operations. * Specify the text encoding when opening the changelog file. Version 2.0.4 ============= :Released: 2015-01-23 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Record version info via Setuptools commands. * Remove the custom Setuptools entry points. This closes Alioth bug#314948. Version 2.0.3 ============= :Released: 2015-01-14 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Break circular import dependency for ‘setup.py’. * Refactor all initial metadata functionality to ‘daemon._metadata’. * Distribute ‘version’ (and its tests) only in source, not install. * Build a “universal” (Python 2 and Python 3) wheel. Version 2.0.2 ============= :Released: 2015-01-13 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Declare test-time dependency on recent ‘unittest2’. * Declare packaging-time dependency on ‘docutils’ library. * Include unit tests for ‘version’ module with source distribution. * Record version info consistent with distribution metadata. Version 2.0.1 ============= :Released: 2015-01-11 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Include the ‘version’ module with source distribution. Version 2.0 =========== :Released: 2015-01-10 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Support both Python 3 (version 3.2 or later) and Python 2 (version 2.7 or later). * Document the API of all functions comprehensively in docstrings. * Add a hacking guide for developers. * Add explicit credit for contributors. * Document the security impact of the default umask. * Specify explicit text or binary mode when opening files. * Preserve exception context in custom exceptions. * Declare compatibility with current Python versions. * Depend on Python 3 compatible libraries. * Update package homepage to Alioth hosted project page. * Use ‘pydoc.splitdoc’ to get package description text. * Remove ASCII translation of package description, not needed now the docstring is a proper Unicode text value. * Include test suite with source distribution. * Move package metadata to ‘daemon/_metadata.py’. * Migrate to JSON (instead of Python) for serialised version info. * Add unit tests for metadata. * Store and retrieve version info in Setuptools metadata. * Migrate to ‘str.format’ for interpolation of values into text. * Migrate to ‘mock’ library for mock objects in tests. * Migrate to ‘testscenarios’ library for unit test scenarios. * Migrate to ‘unittest2’ library for back-ported improvements. Remove custom test suite creation. * Discriminate Python 2-and-3 compatible usage of dict methods. * Discriminate Python 2-and-3 compatible bytes versus text. * Declare explicit absolute and relative imports. * Discriminate between different ‘fileno’ method behaviours. In Python 3, ‘StringIO.fileno’ is callable but raises an exception. * Migrate to built-in ‘next’ function. * Wrap the ‘fromlist’ parameter of ‘__import__’ for Python 3 compatibility. * Wrap function introspection for Python 3 compatibility. * Wrap standard library imports where names changed in Python 3. Version 1.6.1 ============= :Released: 2014-08-04 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Use unambiguous “except FooType as foo” syntax. This is to ease the port to Python 3, where the ambiguous comma usage is an error. * Ensure a ‘basestring’ name bound to the base type for strings. This is to allow checks to work on Python 2 and 3. * Specify versions of Python supported, as trove classifiers. * Update copyright notices. * Add editor hints for most files. * Distinguish continuation-line indentation versus block indentation. * Use unicode literals by default, specifying bytes where necessary. This is to ease the port to Python 3, where the default string type is unicode. * Update copyright notices. * Update the GPL license file to version 3, as declared in our copyright notices. * Change license of library code to Apache License 2.0. Rationale at . Version 1.6 =========== :Released: 2010-05-10 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Use absolute imports to disambiguate provenance of names. * setup.py: Require ‘lockfile >=0.9’. * daemon/pidfile.py: Renamed from ‘daemon/pidlockfile.py’. Change references elsewhere to use this new name. * test/test_pidfile.py: Renamed from ‘test/test_pidlockfile.py’. Change references elsewhere to use this new name. * daemon/pidfile.py: Remove functionality now migrated to ‘lockfile’ library. * FAQ: Add some entries and re-structure the document. * Use ‘unicode’ data type for all text values. * Prepare for Python 3 upgrade by tweaking some names and imports. * MANIFEST.in: Include the documentation in the distribution. Version 1.5.5 ============= :Released: 2010-03-02 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Stop using ‘pkg_resources’ and revert to pre-1.5.3 version-string handling, until a better way that doesn't break everyone else's installation can be found. Version 1.5.4 ============= :Released: 2010-02-27 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * MANIFEST.in: Explicitly include version data file, otherwise everything breaks for users of the sdist. Version 1.5.3 ============= :Released: 2010-02-26 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * daemon/daemon.py: Invoke the pidfile context manager's ‘__exit__’ method with the correct arguments (as per ). Thanks to Ludvig Ericson for the bug report. * version: New plain-text data file to store project version string. * setup.py: Read version string from data file. * daemon/version/__init__.py: Query version string with ‘pkg_resources’. * Add ‘pylint’ configuration for this project. * Update copyright notices. Version 1.5.2 ============= :Released: 2009-10-24 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Ensure we only prevent core dumps if ‘prevent_core’ is true. Thanks to Denis Bilenko for reporting the lacking implementation of this documented option. * Add initial Frequently Asked Questions document. Version 1.5.1 ============= :Released: 2009-09-26 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Make a separate collection of DaemonRunner test scenarios. * Handle a start request with a timeout on the PID file lock acquire. * Implement ‘TimeoutPIDLockFile’ to specify a timeout in advance of lock acquisition. * Use lock with timeout for ‘DaemonRunner’. Version 1.5 =========== :Released: 2009-09-24 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Make a separate collection of PIDLockFile test scenarios. * Raise specific errors on ‘DaemonRunner’ failures. * Distinguish different conditions on reading and parsing PID file. * Refactor code to ‘_terminate_daemon_process’ method. * Improve explanations in comments and docstrings. * Don't set pidfile at all if no path specified to constructor. * Write the PID file using correct OS locking and permissions. * Close the PID file after writing. * Implement ‘PIDLockFile’ as subclass of ‘lockfile.LinkFileLock’. * Remove redundant checks for file existence. * Manage the excluded file descriptors as a set (not a list). * Only inspect the file descriptor of streams if they actually have one (via a ‘fileno’ method) when determining which file descriptors to close. Thanks to Ask Solem for revealing this bug. Version 1.4.8 ============= :Released: 2009-09-17 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Remove child-exit signal (‘SIGCLD’, ‘SIGCHLD’) from default signal map. Thanks to Joel Martin for pinpointing this issue. * Document requirement for ensuring any operating-system specific signal handlers are considered. * Refactor ‘fork_then_exit_parent’ functionality to avoid duplicate code. * Remove redundant imports. * Remove unused code from unit test suite scaffold. * Add specific license terms for unit test suite scaffold. Version 1.4.7 ============= :Released: 2009-09-03 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Fix keywords argument for distribution setup. * Exclude ‘test’ package from distribution installation. Version 1.4.6 ============= :Released: 2009-06-21 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Update documentation for changes from latest PEP 3143 revision. * Implement DaemonContext.is_open method. Version 1.4.5 ============= :Released: 2009-05-17 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Register DaemonContext.close method for atexit processing. * Move PID file cleanup to close method. * Improve docstrings by reference to, and copy from, PEP 3143. * Use mock checking capabilities of newer ‘MiniMock’ library. * Automate building a versioned distribution tarball. * Include developer documentation files in source distribution. Version 1.4.4 ============= :Released: 2009-03-26 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Conform to current PEP version, now released as PEP 3143 “Standard daemon process library”. * Ensure UID and GID are set in correct order. * Delay closing all open files until just before re-binding standard streams. * Redirect standard streams to null device by default. Version 1.4.3 ============= :Released: 2009-03-19 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Close the PID file context on exit. Version 1.4.2 ============= :Released: 2009-03-18 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Context manager methods for DaemonContext. Version 1.4.1 ============= :Released: 2009-03-18 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Improvements to docstrings. * Further conformance with draft PEP. Version 1.4 =========== :Released: 2009-03-17 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Implement the interface from a draft PEP for process daemonisation. * Complete statement coverage from unit test suite. Version 1.3 =========== :Released: 2009-03-12 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Separate controller (now ‘DaemonRunner’) from daemon process context (now ‘DaemonContext’). * Fix many corner cases and bugs. * Huge increase in unit test suite. Version 1.2 =========== :Released: 2009-01-27 :Maintainer: Ben Finney * Initial release of this project forked from ‘bda.daemon’. Thanks, Robert Niederreiter. * Refactor some functionality out to helper functions. * Begin unit test suite. .. This is free software: you may copy, modify, and/or distribute this work under the terms of the Apache License version 2.0 as published by the Apache Software Foundation. No warranty expressed or implied. See the file ‘LICENSE.ASF-2’ for details. .. Local variables: coding: utf-8 mode: text mode: rst End: vim: fileencoding=utf-8 filetype=rst :