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Move some important public constants into the .constants sub-module
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1 .. -*- coding: utf-8; mode: rst; -*-
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3 =========
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4 Changes
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5 =========
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7 All major changes over the versions are listed here. For breaking
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8 changes have a look at :ref:`api-changes`, they are listed there in
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9 detail.
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11 .. include:: ../CHANGES.txt
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14 .. _api-changes:
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19 none
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20 ----
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22 - Move some important public constants from :py:mod:`configmix` into
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23 the :py:mod:`configmix.constants` module.
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25 This is technically a breaking change while the author does not
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26 believe that any of the current clients is affected by this
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31 ---
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33 - Do not set "root", "self" and "here" variables any more. This
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34 hinders proper automatic configuration on some PyPy configurations
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35 when using `genapplib`.
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37 While technically a breaking change no known client is known to
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38 rely on the previous behaviour.
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40 Any only the INI-parser did set this variables automatically.
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46 - Do not implicitely convert a configuration value to text if the
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47 value is the result of just a variable expansion.
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94 and therefore dependent on the user's locale.