Smisk 1.1.2 released

[Rasmus Andersson]

Available from the smisk website[1] as well as from PyPI[2].

Changes since 1.1.1:

* Inter-process communication module smisk.ipc, providing a shared
dictionary
which can be concurrently manipulated by a set of processes.

* Berkely DB module smisk.core.bsddb

* Benchmark utility module smisk.util.benchmark exposes an iterator
which can
be used to easily benchmark snippets of code.

* The key-value store example application now uses the shared
dictionary
provided by smisk.ipc.

* smisk.core.Request have two soft limits – max_multipart_size and
max_formdata_size – for limiting automatically handled input data
size. These
soft limits can also be used to disable the automated parsing of
Smisk.

* smisk.util.cache has a new function – app_shared_key – returning a
byte
string which can be used to uniqely identify the application. The
key is
based on the entry file (the python file in which __name__ ==
"__main__").

* smisk.util.type exposes MutableMapping – in Python >=2.6 this is
collections.MutableMapping, in Python >=2.3 it is
UserDict.DictMixin.

* Serializers no longer emit warning.warn-messages when no suiting
implementations are available. Now they are simply not registered
whitout as
much as a whisper.

* In the C library, the macro SMISK_PyString_Check has changed name
to
SMISK_STRING_CHECK (however it still does the exact same thing as
before,
just that in preparation for porting Smisk to Python 3, we need to
sort out
the different meanings of "bytes strings" and "character strings")

* In the C library, we use PyBytes instead of PyString and NUMBER_*
instead of
some PyInt-functions, having macros for Python <2.5. This is a step
toward
the Python 3 port.

* smisk.core is now stored as _smisk and imported by smisk/core/
__init__.py.
This follows the naming custom of other machine-native modules as
well as
provides better name (i.e. _smisk.so instead of core.so) in various
listings.

* Fixed a bug in smisk.core where a www-form-urlencoded request with
incorrect
content length and the first key was longer than the provided
content length,
smisk would induce strange errors (because trying to set NULL into a
python
dict).

Plus several minor fixes and improvements.

[1] http://python-smisk.org/downloads
[2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/smisk/1.1.2