[Grub-dev] GrubNG Python Client v0.3!

[Giorgos Logiotatidis]

On Παρ, 2009-01-23 at 03:04 +1300, chris hall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 1:46 AM, Giorgos Logiotatidis
> <seadog at sealabs.net> wrote:
>         I'm very happy to announce you the 0.3 version of the Python
>         Client:
>         Grab it while it's hot from http://grub.org/?q=en/node/204
>         
>         As this is a major release please update your clients.
>         
>         Changelog 0.3
>          * Fixed bug which produced wrong arcs. No more 401 errors.
>         Closes bug:
>         http://grub.org/?q=en/node/237 (thanks to Chris Hall, Bartek
>         Jasicki and
>         Balinny)
>          * Handle compressed pages correctly
>          * Return grub-error when we get only headers and no body
>          * Better response type handling to deal with broken web
>         servers
>          * Works with the new upload server
>          * Added config file support for username password
>          * Close bug http://grub.org/?q=en/node/243
>          * Added some sleep code to deal with dispatch server
>         downtimes
>          * Added some sleep code to deal with upload server errors
>          * Username and password can be read from config file
>          * Debug flag added
>          * Info flag to help with debugging (thanks to Chris Hall)
>          * Code cleanup
> Haven't had a time to look at code base (still have to update my local
> svn copy)
> is the new upate server declared stable? is it the default in 0.3?

Nope the new update server is not declared stable yet but yes it's the
default in 0.3. You can change it by removing the 'dev' from the
DISPATCHER variable. I also added a comment to the release notes. 

I've already uploaded many arcs with the new server and behaves nicely
with the python client. So give it a try :)

-g