Zodbbrowser

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- Bugfix for POSKeyErrors when viewing BTrees of non-trivial sizes
(LP953480). This fixes a regression introduced in version 0.10.0.

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- Standalone app mode uses the Zope exception formatter for easier debugging.

- Bugfix for weird LocationError: '__class__' for some containers
with custom traversal rules.

- Links to persistent objects in value representations now also use
hex OIDs.

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- Browsing of transaction records (zodb_history). Initial implementation so
far, unbelievably slow when you have large databases (LP907900).

- ZODB Browser now avoids writing to the database even in read-write mode.
Previously when your objects had write-on-read semantics, those writes might
have snuck in.

- More descriptive page titles (LP931115).

- Show object size in the header (LP497780).

- Expand truncated values by clicking on them (LP931184).

- More user-friendly representation of multiline text values.

- Update maintainer email in setup.py.

- Better error message for "address already in use" errors.

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- Make it possible to use zodbbrowser as a plugin for Zope 2.12. Previously
you could only use the standalone zodbbrowser app with Zope 2.12 databases.

- Be more robust against exceptions happening in repr(): show the value as
"<unrepresentable Foo>" instead of erroring out.

- Make 'python -m zodbbrowser' run the standalone app on Python 2.5 and 2.7.
Note that 'python -m zodbbrowser.standalone' already worked on Python 2.4
through 2.7.

- Add an option to specify ZEO storage name (--storage NAME). Contributed by
Thierry Florac.

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- Show tuple differences more clearly in the history. (Uses a really dumb
diff algorithm that just looks for a common prefix/suffix. Works really
well when you append to the end, or remove just a single item. I cannot
use difflib.SequenceMapper because there's no guarantee tuple items are
hashable.)

- Make it possible to locate an object by OID: press g, then type the oid
(hex and both decimal supported; even octal, should you wish to use it).
You can also find subobjects starting from a given OID by entering paths
like '0x1234/sub/object'.

- Catch and display unpickling errors of the current state, not just
historical older states.

- Handle missing interfaces that are directly provided by persistent objects.

This works for the standalone zodbbrowser application; the zope.interface
monkey-patch for this is too intrusive to install when using zodbbrowser
as a plugin.

- Made ``pip install zodbbrowser`` work properly by adding explicit
dependencies that easy_install would've picked up from setuptools extras.

Note: if you get ``AttributeError: __file__``, make sure
zope.app.applicationcontrol is at least version 3.5.9. Older versions will
not work with pip.

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- Support all kinds of ZODB databases, not just those used by Zope 3/BlueBream
apps (LP494987).

- Renders tuples and lists that contain large dicts better.

- Remove dependency on zope.dublincore/zope.app.dublincore (LP622180).