bh: thuban/libraries/pyshapelib NEWS,1.1,1.2

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RCS file: /thubanrepository/thuban/libraries/pyshapelib/NEWS,v
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--- NEWS	19 Aug 2003 21:24:20 -0000	1.1
+++ NEWS	17 May 2004 15:50:41 -0000	1.2
@@ -1,3 +1,28 @@
+pyshapelib 0.3 (2004-05-17)
+===========================
+
+ * New module shptree.  It's a simple wrapper for shapelib's quadtree.
+
+ * Provide a way to access the shapelib module and shapefile objects
+   from C.  It's not documented, unfortunately, but pyshapelib_api.h may
+   be a starting point.  This feature is used in Thuban which could be
+   used as an example.
+
+Module dbflib:
+
+ * dbf objects now have a method commit if compiled with shapelib newer
+   than 1.2.10 (that is only the CVS version of shapelib at the time of
+   writing).  This method calls the new function dbflib DBFUpdateHeader.
+
+ * New method read_attribute which reads a single attribute instead of a
+   whole record like read_record
+
+ * NULL values are now returned as None.  DBF files don't really support
+   NULL, but this change matches a new feature in shapelib 1.2.9.  It's
+   not clear whether it should be implemented in the python wrapper in
+   this way.  It might be better to make it optional.
+
+
 pyshapelib 0.2 (2001-06-15)
 ===========================