[Pythonmac-SIG] prepping Python appscript 0.19.0 for release

[has]

Hi all,

I'm currently working my way through a list of remaining TODOs with a  
view to kicking py-appscript 0.19.0 out the door within the next  
fortnight. I've just committed a bunch of changes to svn; there's  
still a few items on the TODO list, but I may just (indefinitely?)  
postpone some or all of those as not being sufficiently important to  
bother with.

Barring any last minute crises of confidence, I'm planning to make  
this the beta release, which means the API will be frozen and there  
shouldn't be any more changes barring bug fixes.

Appscript is coming up on its fifth birthday now, and I would really  
like to have a 1.0.0 release out before the end of this year. For one  
thing, Python 3.0's release is imminent, so I need to fork the  
codebase soon so I can begin work on supporting that. For another, I  
have several other projects, embarrassingly overdue commitments, etc.  
also demanding attention, so the sooner this beast is nailed the  
sooner I can get on with those. Finally, as a full-time professional  
AppleScript/Python/Cocoa developer myself now, and currently working  
on a rather large and really cool Illustrator-based automation  
project, I would really like to get on with just _using_ the damn  
thing for a change. ;)


So... if anyone wants to look it over to see if it all looks kosher  
(modules, examples, documentation, etc.), send us any last bug  
reports, application compatibility problems, feature requests, etc.  
then this is the time to do it[1]. To check it out from appscript's  
Subversion repository [2]:

	svn checkout http://appscript.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/appscript/py-appscript/trunk 
   py-appscript-0.19.0-prerelease

Many thanks,

has

[1] IOW, if you have any interest in appscript, please go right now  
and beat on it like a piñata, because this is pretty much your last  
chance.

[2] Or, if anyone needs a prebuilt copy, email me and I'll see what I  
can do.
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