Doc changes and release changes for 1.7

build-doc.bat

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 SET VERSION=1.7
 python setup.py build_sphinx
-python setup.py build_sphinx -b latex
+rem python setup.py build_sphinx -b latex
 
-pushd build\sphinx\latex
-pdflatex pyreadline.tex
-pdflatex pyreadline.tex
-pdflatex pyreadline.tex
-popd
+rem pushd build\sphinx\latex
+rem pdflatex pyreadline.tex
+rem pdflatex pyreadline.tex
+rem pdflatex pyreadline.tex
+rem popd
 
 mkdir dist
 copy build\sphinx\latex\pyreadline.pdf dist\pyreadline-%VERSION%.pdf

doc/source/introduction.rst

@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ console is still under development.
 
 The pyreadline module does not yet support Python 3.x this will be targeted for the 2.0 version.
 
+Version 1.7 will be the last release with compatibility with 2.4 and 2.5. The next
+major release will target 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x. The 1.7 series will only receive bugfixes
+from now on.
+
 
 Dependencies
 ------------

doc/source/known_issues.rst

@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ Known issues
    from the install directory. This will not interfere with ipython usage, but you will
    not be able to use the rlcompleter module which requires the readline.py module.
 
- * reverse search does not work
+ * Forward incremental search using ctrl-s is flaky because no keyrelease events are generated for ctrl-s
+   we use keypress events instead. As a work around ctrl-shift-r is also bound to forward incremental search.
 
  * #488177 exceptions occur when using pyreadline on windows 2008 r2
 

pyreadline/release.py

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ The pyreadline package is a python implementation of GNU readline functionality
 it is based on the ctypes based UNC readline package by Gary Bishop. 
 It is not complete. It has been tested for use with windows 2000 and windows xp.
 
+Version 1.7 will be the last release with compatibility with 2.4 and 2.5. The next
+major release will target 2.6, 2.7 and 3.x. The 1.7 series will only receive bugfixes
+from now on.
+
 Features:
  *  keyboard text selection and copy/paste
  *  Shift-arrowkeys for text selection