Branching for Cheetah 2.3.0/2.4.0

[tyler-53]

I'm taking a bit more proactive of an approach to making clear what
versions of Cheetah supports, and how well, so here's my plan for moving
forward.

The git branch "maint" will likely branch further and further from
"master" and "next"; maint will be where the Cheetah 2.3.xx series will
be released from. *No active development will occur here*. maint will
*only* be used for backported fixes/improvements from the Cheetah 2.4.xx
series. Cheetah 2.3.xx will contain longer-term Python 2.3 support.


This means that the Cheetah 2.4.xx series will only support Python
2.4-2.7. Development for Cheetah 2.4.xx will continue to occur in
master and next (primarily next).

I have updated the jobs in Hudson accordingly:
        http://hudson.cheetahtemplate.org/view/Cheetah%20Jobs/

I have also tagged the first release candidate for Cheetah 2.3.0 and
Cheetah 2.4.0 respectively:
        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.3.0rc1
        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.3.0rc1

        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/tarball/v2.4.0rc1
        http://github.com/rtyler/cheetah/zipball/v2.4.0rc1


Both contain the recent fix to the performance regression in
Template.__init__() as well as some of the updates that I posted last
night.

I'm looking to officially release these both within the next few days,
I'd appreciate any testing that you all could offer.


Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance


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[tyler-53]

I'm pleased to announce the release of two separate branches of Cheetah,
v2.3.0 and v2.4.0.

These two releases are largely the same, but the 2.4.xx series of
releases will be where future Cheetah development will occur (master and
next branches in my git repository) and support Python 2.4 upwards.
Meanwhile, Cheetah v2.3.xx will be a maintenance (maint branch in git)
series of releases supporting Python 2.3 upwards; I do not intend on
supporting Cheetah v2.3.xx except for occasional backported fixes.


You can download these releases respectively from PyPi:

        http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheetah/2.3.0
        http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Cheetah/2.4.0


The changes (for both) are:

        - Fix a major performance regression in Template.__init__()
        - More graceful handling of unicode when calling .respond() to render a template
        - Minor code updates
        - Update the default filter (thanks mikeb!)


Let me know if there are any issues, I hope you all enjoy :)

Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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