From info at egenix.com Tue Aug 5 15:46:37 2008 From: info at egenix.com (eGenix Team: M.-A. Lemburg) Date: Tue Aug 5 14:48:14 2008 Subject: [egenix-users] ANN: eGenix mx Base Distribution 3.1.1 Message-ID: <48984BAD.7070708@egenix.com> ________________________________________________________________________ ANNOUNCING eGenix.com mx Base Distribution Version 3.1.1 Open Source Python extensions providing important and useful services for Python programmers. This announcement is also available on our web-site for online reading: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mx-Base-Distribution-3.1.1-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT The eGenix.com mx Base Distribution for Python is a collection of professional quality software tools which enhance Python's usability in many important areas such as fast text searching, date/time processing and high speed data types. The tools have a proven record of being portable across many Unix and Windows platforms. You can write applications which use the tools on Windows and then run them on Unix platforms without change due to the consistent platform independent interfaces. Contents of the distribution: * mxDateTime - Date/Time Library for Python * mxTextTools - Fast Text Parsing and Processing Tools for Python * mxProxy - Object Access Control for Python * mxBeeBase - On-disk B+Tree Based Database Kit for Python * mxURL - Flexible URL Data-Type for Python * mxUID - Fast Universal Identifiers for Python * mxStack - Fast and Memory-Efficient Stack Type for Python * mxQueue - Fast and Memory-Efficient Queue Type for Python * mxTools - Fast Everyday Helpers for Python All available packages have proven their stability and usefulness in many mission critical applications and various commercial settings all around the world. * About Python: 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. * About eGenix: eGenix is a consulting and software product company focused on providing professional quality services and products to Python users and developers (http://www.egenix.com/). ________________________________________________________________________ NEWS The 3.1.1 release of the eGenix mx Base Distribution is a patch level release which fixes an installation problem with our pre-built packages on Mac OS X and some older Linux platforms. This is also the first release with Python 2.6 support ! For now, we only ship Linux pre-built versions for Python 2.6. Once the final version of Python 2.6 is released, we will also provide Windows installers and pre-build packages for the other platforms that we support. For a list of changes compared to the older version 3.0 of the package, please see the eGenix mx Base 3.0 release announcement: http://www.egenix.com/company/news/eGenix-mx-Base-Distribution-3.1.0-GA.html ________________________________________________________________________ DOWNLOADS The download archives and instructions for installing the packages can be found on the eGenix mx Base Distribution page: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/ ________________________________________________________________________ LICENSE The eGenix mx Base package is distributed under the eGenix.com Public License 1.1.0 which is a CNRI Python License style Open Source license. You can use the package in both commercial and non-commercial settings without fee or charge. The package comes with full source code ________________________________________________________________________ SUPPORT Commercial support for these packages is available from eGenix.com. Please see http://www.egenix.com/services/support/ for details about our support offerings. Enjoy, -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 05 2008) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ :::: Try mxODBC.Zope.DA for Windows,Linux,Solaris,MacOSX for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611