Announcement of the merge between PoPy and PyGreSQL.

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+The developers of PyGreSQL and PoPy are pleased to announce that they have
+decided to merge the two projects.  It was felt that the two projects
+were alike in many ways but with different strengths which will allow
+them to create a more powerful product over all.
+
+D'Arcy J.M. Cain and Thierry Michel will share duties of core for the new
+project which will be called PyGreSQL.  They will be responsible for
+making sure that the code base is kept to the highest standards that
+the users are accustomed to as well as controlling who has write access
+to the new project's source repository.
+
+PyGreSQL is a python module that interfaces to a PostgreSQL database. It
+embeds the PostgreSQL query library to allow easy use of the powerful
+PostgreSQL features from a Python script.
+
+PyGreSQL is based on the PyGres95 code written by Pascal Andre,
+andre@chimay.via.ecp.fr.  The code was changed to version to 2.0 and
+updated for Python 1.5 and PostgreSQL 6.2.1 and was made fully ANSI
+compliant.  Later versions are fixes and enhancements to that.  The
+latest version of PyGreSQL works with Python 2.2 and PostgreSQL 7.3.
+
+PoPy is another python module connecting python and PostgreSQL.  It
+has been written with emphasis on complying with the Database API
+specification of python's Database Special Interest Group, without
+sacrificing speed of execution.  In particular, it complies with the DB
+API version 2.0, with thread safety level 2.  PoPy has support for
+large objects (BLOBs), arrays, and date objects.  It also permits both
+external and internal database procedure calls.  [ed comment:  what does
+this mean?]  As a convenience to programmers, it automatically performs
+conversions between python and PostgreSQL types, and signals dynamic
+problems using fine-grained exceptions.
+
+Moreover, PoPy's sister product, ZPoPyDA offered the first really usable
+database adapter connecting the Zope system and PostgreSQL.
+
+The new project will be called PyGreSQL.  The version of the next release
+will be bumped to 4.0 to reflect this major change to the development.
+
+Further information will be posted to the project's web site at
+http://www.PyGreSQL.org/.
+