* Added wrapper to use PYTHON environment variable in tests
* Added unicode comment to default test config
* Changed config objects to use locale encoding
* Changed to use byte buffers for config (re-)writing
* Added tests for unicode sensitive tools

Global: re-added PDF version of documentation - disabled automatic update of doc version (amendment to a0efb129)

Global/Templates: changed version info to be retrieved from version control system; changed 'mkexp_input' variable to show package version

* Updated version info in setup script
* Added PDF documentation to distribution setup

* Added README mode to 'getexp'
* Changed 'getexp' output from warning to info
* Added option to skip directory creation for config tests (--no-make-dirs/-m)
* Support for default configuration settings by model build (SETUP.config)
* Added User Guide

* Added setting of sectioned variables via command line, using '.' as section path separator and '..' for verbatim periods
* Added automated testing using Python's unittest library
* Disambiguated warning due to missing experiment configuration; now mentions 'experiment'. 

* Merged r3149: Fixed cleaning of packaged CDI library. from trunk/echam-dev
* Added removal of config.inc, stamp files
* Added mkexp sub directory to distclean chain

* Added handling of experiment description
** Initial comment is parsed if no EXP_DESCRIPTION is set
** Description is written to script directory as README file
* Added setting of top-level settings from command line

* Updated Makefile

* Added python packaging information
* Changed mkexp to look for templates in current directory, not in installation
* Added Makefile as wrapper to python packaging (install)