MiddleKit 1.1 Release Notes

MiddleKit version 1.1 released on 08/03/11

New Features

• Added support for SQLite to MiddleKit.

Improvements and Refinements

• SQL Server support in MiddleKit now done via pyodbc, because mxODBC is a commercial product, while pyodbc is free and open source. Tested with SQL Server 2008.

Minor API Changes

• We are now only using new-style classes.

Deprecations

• The _get and _set methods of MiddleObject have been deprecated in favor of valueForKey and setValueForKey.
• MiddleKit now does not support mxDateTime types any more, only the native datetime types. However, if python-dateutil is not installed, Webware will still use mxDateTime internally for string parsing (but the results will be datetime anyway). This makes the whole datetime handling much clearer and easier maintainable.