Current mood:

amused

Warning: Before you update Nevow. Major merge completed!
Before you update Nevow to the latest version of trunk, make sure you have a few minutes to work around any potential roughness. The development which was happening on the freeform-patterened branch was merged tonight. All in all, it seems to be fairly backwards compatible.

*You should clean out your old pyc files*. Otherwise, nevow will have problems starting up because it will import the old nevow/formless.pyc module instead of the new top-level formless package.

If you were doing anything fancy with formless, such as subclassing Configurable or implementing your own Typed subclass, you will need to make some minor tweaks. The Configurable baseclass is now in the formless.configurable module, and the Typed.coerce signature is now coerce(self, data, configurable) instead of coerce(self, data).

This merge almost completely rewrites the formless code from the ground up. The code is much more straightforward and better tested. formless.webform.renderForms() can now be provided with pattern nodes to influence the rendering of the forms. The structure and layout of the forms can be completely controlled.

This merge also significantly simplifies how Nevow goes about the rendering process, reducing the previous flatten, strflatten _flatten, render, and other incomprehensible driver functions with a simpler set of driver functions, contained in the nevow.flat package. You probably won't care about this unless you would like to try to read the nevow code and understand how it works.

If you encounter any other problems with this update, please let us know on the mailing list or on the #twisted.web channel. Thanks!