[tahoe-dev] announcing zfec v1.2.0

zooko zooko at zooko.com
Fri Nov 9 10:38:42 PST 2007 

Folks:

I've uploaded zfec v1.2.0 to the Python Package Index.

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/zfec

The big changes from zfec 1.1 that you have to specially pay  
attention to:

  * I fixed a bug in the "easyfec" API, in which that API would do  
padding incorrectly.  The "easyfec" API is not the primary API, it is  
an optional wrapper around the basic API which does offers a slightly  
more abstract interface (the input data is a string instead of a list  
of strings), at a cost in performance.  I also changed the easyfec  
API to be harder to misuse -- if you were previously using the  
easyfec API, then please examine the new docstring and change the way  
that you call it.

  * I stopped copying in bits of code from other projects and instead  
have started depending on those other projects, namely argparse and  
pyutil.

Other changes:

  * Greg Hazel contributed a patch to make zfec compile with the  
Microsoft Visual Studio tool, which apparently will never support  
C99.  :-(  So now zfec is C89-compatible.  Thanks, Greg!

  * more detailed and human-friendly exception messages if you pass  
wrongly shaped inputs (e.g. padding mistakes)

  * add benchmarks of easyfec vs. fec -- fec can be several times as  
fast (depending on the size of the inputs) on my machine!

  * add unit tests, especially unit tests for easyfec

  * various improvements of the code which don't change functionality  
or performance

Regards,

Zooko

------- begin appended output from "darcs changes -s --from-tag=1.1"

Fri Nov  9 11:17:04 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   tagged zfec-1.2.0


Fri Nov  9 11:14:55 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: add benchmarks for easyfec (untested)

     M ./zfec/bench/bench_zfec.py -4 +36

Fri Nov  9 11:09:52 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: setup: remove MANIFEST.in
   Its job is now done by setuptools_darcs.


     R ./zfec/MANIFEST.in

Fri Nov  9 10:04:11 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: update TODO

     M ./zfec/TODO -8 +4

Fri Nov  9 10:03:48 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: fewer randomized tests (for faster unit testing)

     M ./zfec/zfec/test/test_zfec.py -4 +4

Fri Nov  9 10:00:29 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: refactor exception raising to use handy dandy PyErr_Format 
() instead of vsprintf()

     M ./zfec/zfec/_fecmodule.c -33 +18

Fri Nov  9 09:45:23 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: a few debugging and in-line comment tweaks

     M ./zfec/setup.py -2 +1
     M ./zfec/zfec/easyfec.py +11
     M ./zfec/zfec/filefec.py -2 +13

Fri Nov  9 09:43:59 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: add unit tests for easyfec, fix bug in easyfec padding,  
add docstrings explaining how to use easyfec padding correctly

     M ./zfec/zfec/easyfec.py -11 +16
     M ./zfec/zfec/test/test_zfec.py -9 +12

Thu Nov  8 15:26:00 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: add unit tests for easyfec

     M ./zfec/zfec/test/test_zfec.py -19 +76

Thu Nov  8 21:56:43 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: merge two ways to set the default K and M for cmdline_zfec  
to 3 and 8

     M ./zfec/zfec/cmdline_zfec.py -2 +2

Thu Nov  8 19:21:50 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: fix the C89 patch's use of alloca() by multiplying in the  
object size

     M ./zfec/zfec/_fecmodule.c -9 +9
     M ./zfec/zfec/fec.c +1

Thu Nov  8 19:18:27 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: make precondition violation exception message more  
meaningful to the user

     M ./zfec/zfec/_fecmodule.c -2 +2

Thu Nov  8 15:35:59 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: make zfec C89 (ANSI C) compatible, patch thanks to Greg Hazel

     M ./zfec/zfec/_fecmodule.c -24 +33
     M ./zfec/zfec/fec.c -4 +6
     M ./zfec/zfec/fec.h +8

Thu Nov  8 15:41:37 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: make the default K and M for the cmdline "zfec" tool be 3- 
of-8
   The unit tests currently expect these defaults.

     M! ./zfec/zfec/cmdline_zfec.py -2 +5

Thu Nov  8 21:55:19 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: clearer precondition failure exception message

     M ./zfec/zfec/_fecmodule.c -1 +1

Thu Nov  8 21:54:00 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: clean up variable names and whitespace

     M ./zfec/zfec/_fecmodule.c -6 +6

Thu Nov  8 21:51:35 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: setup: use argparse and pyutil as separate packages, not  
by copying their source code into the zfec package

     M ./zfec/setup.py -1 +3
     M ./zfec/zfec/__init__.py -2 +2
     M ./zfec/zfec/cmdline_zfec.py -3 +3
     M ./zfec/zfec/cmdline_zunfec.py -1 +1
     M ./zfec/zfec/filefec.py -3 +3
     R ./zfec/zfec/test/test_util.py
     R ./zfec/zfec/util/
     R ./zfec/zfec/util/__init__.py
     R ./zfec/zfec/util/argparse.py
     R ./zfec/zfec/util/fileutil.py
     R ./zfec/zfec/util/mathutil.py
     R ./zfec/zfec/util/version_class.py

Thu Nov  8 15:28:06 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * TEMP TFIX EASYFGEC

     M ./zfec/zfec/easyfec.py -4 +4

Thu Nov  8 07:41:46 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: setup: build _fec.so under the zfec subdirectory

     M ./zfec/setup.py -1 +1

Thu Nov  8 07:41:16 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: setup: use my version of ez_setup.py

     M ./zfec/ez_setup.py -64 +53

Thu Nov  8 07:41:08 MST 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: update TODO list

     M ./zfec/TODO -6 +9

Thu Oct  4 15:05:24 MDT 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: import latest variant of ez_setup.py

     M ./zfec/ez_setup.py -3 +7

Wed Oct  3 14:28:25 MDT 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: use ez_setup.py without a "download delay"

     M ./zfec/setup.py -1 +1

Wed Oct  3 14:27:56 MDT 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   * zfec: copy in a version of ez_setup.py that has our latest patches

     M ./zfec/ez_setup.py -75 +77

Mon Oct  1 13:40:57 MDT 2007  zooko at zooko.com
   tagged zfec-1.1

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