[Twisted-Python] Announcing Twisted 10.1.0pre2!

[exarkun at twistedmatrix.com]

On 11 Sep, 11:18 pm, therve at free.fr wrote:
>It's this time of the year again! From the dangerous and intrepid land
>of Montréal, Canada, I have the pleasure to announce the first 10.2.0
>pre-release.
>
>Tarballs for Twisted 10.2.0pre1 are now available at:
>  http://people.canonical.com/~therve/Twisted/10.2.0pre1/
>
>
>Highlights include:
>
>* A new implementation of the Deferred callbacks firing, which now
>handles chains iteratively instead of recursively, and should prevent
>recursion errors.
>
>* Deferred.setTimeout has finally been removed.

Maybe we can also mention the new email auth example and the 
spawnProcess optimization?  Or a few other issues that seem interesting. 
The Deferred changes are cool, but only having two highlights for the 
release seems weak.
>And the usual load of bug fixes. For more information, see the NEWS 
>file.
>
>
>Please download the tarballs and test them as much as possible. I
>intend to do a final release within the next 2 weeks, if I didn't die
>by ingestion of poutine.

I did a user install (without setuptools) on Ubuntu 9.10.  Some 
observations:

  * #4503 was misclassified as a core bug, but it's a words bug.
  * There are still .doc files in the topfiles directories
  * There are two trial test failures, apparently the ones fixed by #4608
  * The topfiles directories all get installed
  * twisted/web/test/test_util.py appears to be missing

Aside from the two trial failures the test suite passes.  I'm installing 
this on my mail server now, I'll post again if I run into any troubles 
there.

Jean-Paul