I was working on the rewrite branch last week (implementing xmlreader, additional
retrieving of special pages, hooking cosmetic_changes with new functionality and some
other stuff)
At least I am a bit frustrated: I guess nobody uses it as I found some blocker in the code
and mainly it runs very very slow. The time consumption is more than 10 times of the trunk
release. Maybe the cacherequest is still unfinished but I cannot follow the site request
since -verbose gives no additional output about that. Is there another switch?
As I am not able to keep both releases on the same level an merge it vice versa, I would
like to ask the next steps and how to proceed in that manner.
btw I created a matrix for python version / pwb release at
http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Pywikipediabot/Overview. Because of the unicode bug
(which is triggered by py 2.5/2.6/2.71) it is strictly recommended to use python 2.7.2 or
2.7.2 for the trunk. I guess that bug does not affect the rewrite. But we need 2.6 for
some method decorators.
And at last: thanks Merlijn for the pwb.py shortener.
Regards
xqt