[IPython-dev] Re: [IPython-user] ANN: IPython 0.6.10 is out.

[Viktor Ransmayr]

Hi Fernando

You wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm glad to announce the release of IPython 0.6.10.  IPython's 
> homepage is at:
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org
>
> and downloads are at:
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org/dist
>
> I've provided RPMs (for Python 2.3, built under Fedora Core 3), plus 
> source downloads (.tar.gz).  We now also have a native win32 installer.
>
> Debian, Fink and BSD packages for this version should be coming soon, 
> as the
> respective maintainers (many thanks to Jack Moffit, Andrea Riciputi 
> and Dryice
> Liu) have the time to follow their packaging procedures.
>
> Many thanks to Enthought for their continued hosting support for 
> IPython, and
> to all the users who contributed ideas, fixes and reports.
>
>
> Release notes
> -------------
>
> As always, the NEWS file can be found at 
> http://ipython.scipy.org/NEWS, and the full ChangeLog at 
> http://ipython.scipy.org/ChangeLog.
>
>
> * The major highlight of this release is vastly improved support for 
> Windows users.  Thanks to a lot of help from Viktor Ransmayr 
> (installer work) and Gary Bishop (coloring problems), now Windows 
> users finally should have an ipython with all the functionality 
> available under Unix.
>
> There is now a true win32 executable installer:
>
>   http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ipython-0.6.10.win32.exe
>
> This can be double-clicked and it will do a real windows installation, 
> allowing later de-installation via the Control Panel.  It will also 
> warn if it detects that ctypes and/or readline are missing (needed for 
> coloring/tab support).
>
> Full source syntax highlighting had always been broken under win32, 
> and the bug turned out to be in ipython's formatting code.  Thanks to 
> Gary's debugging help, this problem is now fixed.  You can test it by 
> typing in ipython:
>
> import code
> code??
>
> You should see properly highligted sources, as shown in this (new) 
> screenshot:
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org/screenshots/snapshot6.png
>
> Under Win32, ipython will now honor (if it exists) the $HOME 
> environment variable and it will put your .ipython/ directory there.  
> This should be more consistent for Win32 users who have a unix-like 
> setup.  If $HOME is not defined, the previous behavior remains 
> (HOMEDRIVE\HOMEPATH).
>
> I also fixed a crash for pylab users under win32 with multithreaded 
> backends (GTK/WX).
>
> I would appreciate reports of any problems from Win32 users.
>
> * (X)Emacs users: I incorporated Alex Schmolck's recent fixes and 
> improvements to ipython.el.  Since the python-mode project still 
> hasn't made a release with the changes which IPython needs, I've 
> temporarily copied today's CVS snapshot (v 4.70) of python-mode.el here:
>
> http://ipython.scipy.org/tmp/python-mode.el
>
> Once they make an official release, I'll remove this.
>
> * Small cleanups and improvements to numutils, including new amin/amax 
> and empty_like utility functions.  The deprecated spike/spike_odd 
> functions have been removed.
>
> * Fix issue 24 from the bug tracker: spurious attribute access on 
> assignment (foo.x=1 would trigger a __getattr__ call on foo).
>
> * Fix reporting of compound names in verbose exception reporting 
> mode.  This had been broken since the beginning of ipython (the 
> tokenization logic was a bit tricky).
>
> * Fix gtk deprecation warnings (A. Straw patch).
>
> * Fix crash when inspecting instances without an __init__ method 
> (reported by N. Nemenc).
>
> * Fix quote stripping bug in shell access (P. Ramachandran report).
>
> * Other minor fixes and cleanups, both to code and documentation.
>
>
> Enjoy, and as usual please report any problems.


I just now took the time to upgrade from 0.6.9-1 to 0.6.10.

Installing via the Windows-Installer Executable worked. However, you
can't use IPython nor pysh from the start-menu.

If you click on them, the first screen of the Windows Installer executable
is started again.

Verifiying the created links revealed

"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\VR\Eigene 
Dateien\Downloads\Python\IPython\ipython-0.6.10.win32.exe" 
C:\Python23\scripts\ipython

respectively

"C:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\VR\Eigene 
Dateien\Downloads\Python\IPython\ipython-0.6.10.win32.exe" 
C:\Python23\scripts\ipython -p pysh

as the target :-(

I gonna download the source of IPython-0.6.10 now and start investigating
the setup.py and the ipython_post_win32_install.py script, which was used
for the generation of the binary installer.

Kind regards,

    Viktor