Pre-release of new mailman version
I've packaged an a prerelease of my new version of mailman - the one currently running on python.org. I plan to do a real (beta) release by the end of the weekend, but would like to have people do some poking and prodding before then, to shake out any overt problems in my packaging methods... (Also, some people are doing their own work on particular pieces, and need to work w.r.t. the current version instead of the substantially different prior one.)
Since there are some substantial changes, particularly in the way default site values are configured and in the maillist data structures, you should not overwrite anything you're using for production. (In particular, i haven't implemented the routine that migrates the datastructures from older list versions to the current one, so things *will* break) This relase is more for reference - yours and mine.
Please let me know if you do play with it and have anything interesting to report.
Thanks!
ken manheimer klm@python.org
Following up on Ken's announcement of a Mailman prerelease, I've made a prerelease snapshot of Pipermail 0.05. Hopefully I can do some cleanups and actually write some documentation before finalizing 0.05. You can get the code from <http://starship.skyport.net/crew/amk/maintained/pipermail.html>.
This is the first new release since June '97. It's very, very different from 0.02; here's an except from the README:
====== This is a snapshot of the current code for Pipermail 0.05. It is almost completely different from 0.02. Version 0.02 was simply a script that imitated Hypermail quite closely. The Python SIG archives, however, steered further development, since I wanted to customize the SIG lists in various complicated ways.
Pipermail has therefore mutated into an abstract base class(pipermail.T) that provides the skeleton for indexing; you use it by creating a subclass which defines methods to write indexes and format articles. The "hypermail.py" script is intended to be a Hypermail clone with most of Hypermail's features, and it also provides an example of creating a usable subclass of pipermail.T . You could further subclass HypermailFormatter, if desired; I've done this for the Python SIG mailing list archives.
In other words, Pipermail isn't a list archiver, though itcomes with a useful sample archiver in the form of hypermail.py . Pipermail is, instead, a framework for building your own customized message archivers.
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