diff --git a/IPython/core/release.py b/IPython/core/release.py index fe468cb..b19784d 100644 --- a/IPython/core/release.py +++ b/IPython/core/release.py @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ """Release data for the IPython project.""" #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -# Copyright (c) 2008-2011, IPython Development Team. +# Copyright (c) 2008-2012, IPython Development Team. # Copyright (c) 2001-2007, Fernando Perez # Copyright (c) 2001, Janko Hauser # Copyright (c) 2001, Nathaniel Gray @@ -45,9 +45,12 @@ IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively. Its main components are: * Powerful interactive Python shells (terminal- and Qt-based). +* A web-based interactive notebook environment with all shell features plus + support for embedded figures, animations and rich media. * Support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits. * Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects. -* Tools for high level and interactive parallel computing. +* A high-performance library for high level and interactive parallel computing + that works in multicore systems, clusters, supercomputing and cloud scenarios. The enhanced interactive Python shells have the following main features: @@ -58,13 +61,14 @@ The enhanced interactive Python shells have the following main features: * Caching of output results during a session with automatically generated references. -* Readline based name completion. +* Extensible tab completion, with support by default for completion of python + variables and keywords, filenames and function keywords. * Extensible system of 'magic' commands for controlling the environment and performing many tasks related either to IPython or the operating system. -* Configuration system with easy switching between different setups (simpler - than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time). +* A rich configuration system with easy switching between different setups + (simpler than changing $PYTHONSTARTUP environment variables every time). * Session logging and reloading. @@ -72,7 +76,7 @@ The enhanced interactive Python shells have the following main features: * Access to the system shell with user-extensible alias system. -* Easily embeddable in other Python programs and wxPython GUIs. +* Easily embeddable in other Python programs and GUIs. * Integrated access to the pdb debugger and the Python profiler. @@ -108,7 +112,8 @@ authors = {'Fernando' : ('Fernando Perez','fperez.net@gmail.com'), 'Nathan' : ('Nathaniel Gray','n8gray@caltech.edu'), 'Ville' : ('Ville Vainio','vivainio@gmail.com'), 'Brian' : ('Brian E Granger', 'ellisonbg@gmail.com'), - 'Min' : ('Min Ragan-Kelley', 'benjaminrk@gmail.com') + 'Min' : ('Min Ragan-Kelley', 'benjaminrk@gmail.com'), + 'Thomas' : ('Thomas A. Kluyver', 'takowl@gmail.com'), } author = 'The IPython Development Team' @@ -121,9 +126,10 @@ url = 'http://ipython.org' # those are the ones we want pip/easy_install to be able to find. download_url = 'http://archive.ipython.org/release/%s' % version -platforms = ['Linux','Mac OSX','Windows XP/2000/NT'] +platforms = ['Linux','Mac OSX','Windows XP/2000/NT/Vista/7'] -keywords = ['Interactive','Interpreter','Shell','Parallel','Distributed'] +keywords = ['Interactive','Interpreter','Shell','Parallel','Distributed', + 'Web-based computing', 'Qt console', 'Embedding'] classifiers = [ 'Intended Audience :: Developers', diff --git a/docs/source/install/install.txt b/docs/source/install/install.txt index 402a988..7ae7970 100644 --- a/docs/source/install/install.txt +++ b/docs/source/install/install.txt @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Installation using easy_install ------------------------------- If you have :mod:`distribute` installed, the easiest way of getting IPython is -to simple use :command:`easy_install`: +to simply use :command:`easy_install`: .. code-block:: bash