installed when using medusa directly (e.g. monitor_client).

Rather than trying to deal with the portability issues, just use
sprintf() with suitability limits on the strings.

It's experimental because I just called snprintf() directly, even
though later version of Python go through elaborate rituals before
calling it.

caused trouble with backward compatiblity. The content of the __init__.py is
necessary for pre-2.6 installation but no longer used in 2.6.

better performance for higher end machines (that are more likely to be in
use in production systems).

Caused the meta-signal-handler method to log when a registered handler fails.  Also fixed a bug in logfile rotation.

A couple of documentation and formatting cleanups.

Warn if users are using Python 2.1.X where X < 3.

Warn if users are using Python 2.2.

importance of cache size and the need to recompile extensions for
PER_GHOSTIFY().

Add entries for the Connection change made today and a very generic
entry to describe all the BTrees bugs that Tim has fixed.

encoding with cache servers.

reported errors about this; hopefully it will now work again (if they
use setup.py for their build).

with an alternative that works under command.com too.  Building the
splitters still fails on command.com systems because the synthesized
command lines are very long (command.com appears to truncate them,
leaving gibberish commands).

Reimplemented Index.length to use a BTree.Length. Previous dynamic computation was way too slow for big indexes.
Updated tests to include length value checks

so makes the full suite brittle.  Cleaned out all the places where unit
tests change sys.path.  (Use the PYTHONPATH environment variable instead.)

Also brought SearchIndex tests up to date, which I didn't really need to do
since SearchIndex is deprecated, but I did it as part of figuring out the
failed Interface tests, so I might as well check in my work. ;-)  One of the
test modules in SearchIndex forgets to define a global named "Dummy",
actually, so all the tests were failing before this checkin anyway.

the _p_jar attributes set.

attribute.  The ownership code must take this into account.