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Updated for 2.0c1
| author | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> |
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| date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:21:43 +0000 |
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| 15190 | 1 Changes in 2.0c1 since 1.5.2 |
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| 14515 | 4 These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) |
| 5 for machine-independent changes. | |
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7 Unfortunately I have messed my administration up, so I can't give complete |
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8 Mac-specific release notes for the changes in this release. So, I will |
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9 have to leave it at the highlights: |
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11 - 68K support has been dropped, this release is PPC only. |
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12 - Threads support (through standard Python threads module). |
| 14515 | 13 - Tkinter works again! At least: it doesn't immedeately crash in obvious ways. |
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14 - Appearance support through App module and added calls in many other modules. |
| 14515 | 15 Most dialogs and applets have also been converted to Appearance. There's also a |
| 16 ControlAccessor module that handles [GS]etControlData with their plethora of | |
| 17 argument types. | |
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18 - Navigation Services support, with macfs StandardFile calls transparently |
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19 replaced by their NavServices counterparts. |
| 14515 | 20 - Offscreen QuickDraw and GWorld support through Qdoffs module. |
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21 - Drag manager support (Drag module). |
| 14515 | 22 - Much better CGI support and examples, see :Mac:Tools:CGI. |
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23 - Better OSA/AppleEvent support. |
| 14515 | 24 - Up/downcasting of handle-based types is now unified and implemented in the |
| 25 inherting module, e.g. | |
| 26 handleobj = ctlobj.as_Resource() | |
| 27 ctlobj = Ctl.as_Control(handle) | |
| 28 - Added macos.FreeMem(), MaxBlock() and CompactMem(), mainly so apps in Python can | |
| 29 give low-memory warnings. | |
| 30 - MediaDescr module parses some QuickTime media descriptions (but definitely not all). | |
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31 - A new method EasyDialogs.GetArgv() which makes it easy for the end-user to provide |
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32 unix-style sys.argv arguments. (new since 2.0b1) |
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33 - There's a new package, mkcwproject, that creates and builds CodeWarrior |
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34 projects. (new since 2.0b1) |
| 15190 | 35 - The "keep console open" options are now always, never, on error and on |
| 36 unseen output. The latter is the new default. There is also a call | |
| 37 MacOS.KeepConsole() which allows programs to override the behaviour. | |
| 38 (new since 2.0b1) | |
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39 - Missing Numeric modules are included. They may not be on sys.path, however. (new since 2.0b1) |
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40 - gdbm works again. (new since 2.0b1) |
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| 14515 | 42 |
| 43 What is not in this distribution | |
| 44 -------------------------------- | |
| 45 | |
| 46 - The garbage collection mods to 2.0 have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time. | |
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47 - Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available |
| 15190 | 48 Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage. |
| 14515 | 49 - Carbon support is not in here, but should be happening as soon as GUSI is ready. |
| 15190 | 50 - Distutils is incomplete for the Mac, unfortunately. A newer version should be available |
| 51 soon and will be announced on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage. | |
| 14515 | 52 |
| 53 Known problems | |
| 54 -------------- | |
| 55 | |
| 56 This list is far from complete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage, | |
| 57 http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. | |
| 58 | |
| 59 - The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter. | |
| 60 - Aliases do not work in sys.path entries. | |
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61 - Once you have used multiple threads you cannot raise KeyboardInterrupt anymore: |
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62 typing command-. will immedeately exit the interpreter. |