ExternalStorage 0.5 (Beta release) (Jun 14, 2005)

This is not a final release. Experimental releases should only be used for testing and development. Do not use these on production sites, and make sure you have proper backups before installing.

A 100% functional multi-field-aware version, supporting flexible path policies.

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Release Notes

Tested with	Plone 2.1, Plone 2.0.5, Archetypes 1.3.3
State	Beta release
License	BSD
Release Manager	Dorneles Treméa, PloneSolutions
Released	2005/04/01

First version with multi-field support
Included support to use flexible path policies
Wrote more tests
New maintainer and release manager... ;-)

Change log

2005-04-01  Dorneles Treméa  

    * ExternalStorage.py: Added a completely rewrote version supporting
    schemas defining multiple fields with ExternalStorage as storage.
    Removed the archive support for now. Added support to specify the
    filesystem path through a flexible way.

    * filewrapper.py: Added a file wrapper class to provide some nice
    features. Thanks to Tiran for the original idea.

    * tests/testAdd.py, tests/dummy.py, tests/testCut.py,
    tests/testFunctional.py, tests/ESTestCase.py, tests/testRename.py,
    tests/testCopy.py, tests/testEdit.py: Fixed some tests to the new
    implementation.

    * tests/testMultiField.py: Added to test the new multiple fields
    support.

    * tests/data/sample.zip: Replaced by another file, different from
    the 'sample (chars).zip' one.

    * README: Added note about path policy and archive.

    * example/ExternalExample/ComplexSample.py: Added to demonstrate
    the multifield support.

    * AUTHORS: Added note about code rewrite.

    * TODO: Removed finished items. Added new ones... ;-)

    * FileUtils.py: Removed. No more foreign code.

    * LICENSE.txt: Added as BSD license.

    * version.txt: Bumpped version to 0.5