[egenix-users] ANN: eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Package 0.7.0

[Jim Vickroy]

I have not been able to find v 0.7.0 on the download page.

"M.-A. Lemburg" wrote:

> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> ANNOUNCING:
>
>           eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL Extension Package for Python
>                               Version 0.7.0
>
>        Experimental Python extensions providing important and useful
>                       services for Python programmers.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> WHAT IS IT ?:
>
> The eGenix.com mx Experimental Extensions for Python are a collection
> of alpha and beta quality software tools for Python which will be
> integrated into the other mx Extension Packages after they have
> matured to professional quality tools.
>
> Python is an object-oriented Open Source programming language which
> runs on all modern platforms (http://www.python.org/). By integrating
> ease-of-use, clarity in coding, enterprise application connectivity
> and rapid application design, Python establishes an ideal programming
> platform for todays IT challenges.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> WHAT'S NEW ?
>
> This release fixes a few minor bugs and solves the distutils
> problem with mxNumber. It also comes with an updated distutils
> setup which installs the RPMs into /usr/ rather than /usr/local/.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> EGENIX.COM MX EXPERIMENTAL PACKAGE OVERVIEW:
>
> mxNumber - Python Interface to GNU MP Number Types
>
>        mxNumber provides direct access to the high performance numeric
>        types available in the GNU Multi-Precision Lib (GMP).  This
>        library is licensed under the LGPL and runs on practically all
>        Unix platforms. eGenix.com has ported the GMP lib to Windows, to
>        also provide our Windows users with the added benefit of being
>        able to do arbitrary precision calculations.
>
>        The package currently provide these numerical types:
>
>        1. Integer(value)      -- arbitrary precision integers much like
>                                  Python longs only faster
>        2. Rational(nom,denom) -- rational numbers with Integers as
>                                  numerator and denominator
>        3. Float(value[,prec]) -- floating point number with at least
>                                  prec bits precision
>        4. FareyRational(value, maxden)
>                               -- calculate the best rational represenation
>                                  n/d of value such that d < maxden
>
> mxTidy - Interface to HTML Tidy (HTML/XML cleanup tool)
>
>        mxTidy provides a Python interface to a thread-safe, library
>        version of the HTML Tidy. command line tool.
>
>        HTML Tidy helps you to cleanup coding errors in HTML and XML
>        files and produce well-formed HTML, XHTML or XML as output. This
>        allows you to preprocess web-page for inclusion in XML
>        repositories, prepare broken XML files for validation and also
>        makes it possible to write converters from well-known word
>        processing applications such as MS Word to other structured data
>        representations by using XML as intermediate format.
>
> mxURL - A URL Datatype
>
>        mxURL provides a new datatype for storing and manipulating URL
>        values as well as a few helpers related to URL building, encoding
>        and decoding.
>
>        The main intention of the package is to provide an easy to use,
>        fast and lightwheight datatype for Universal Resource Locators
>        (note the W3C now calls these URIs).
>
> mxUID - A UID Datatype
>
>        mxUID provides a fast mechanism for generating universal
>        identification strings (UIDs). The intent is to make these UIDs
>        unique with high probability in order to serve as object or data
>        set identifiers.
>
>        A typical use lies in generating session IDs. Other areas where
>        unique IDs play an important role are RPC-implementations,
>        ORBs, etc.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> WHERE CAN I DOWNLOAD IT ?
>
> The download archives and instructions for installing the packages can
> be found at:
>
>        http://www.egenix.com/
>
> Note that in order to use the eGenix.com mx EXPERIMENTAL package you
> will first need to install the eGenix.com mx BASE package which can
> be downloaded from the same location.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> WHAT DOES IT COST ?
>
> The EXPERIMENTAL packages uses different licenses in its subpackages.
> Please refer to the subpackage documentation for details. Some of them
> may be integrated into the BASE package, others will be integrated
> into the COMMERCIAL package.
>
> The package comes with full source code
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> WHERE CAN I GET SUPPORT ?
>
> Commercial quality support for these packages is available from
> eGenix.com. Please see
>
> http://www.egenix.com/files/python/eGenix-mx-Extensions.html#Support
>
> for details about our support offerings.
>
> ________________________________________________________________________
>
> Enjoy,
> --
> Marc-Andre Lemburg
> CEO eGenix.com Software GmbH
> ______________________________________________________________________
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>
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