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annotate Mac/Relnotes @ 16817:ffcb3cff9439 legacy-trunk
Updated for 2.1a3
| author | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> |
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| date | Tue, 27 Feb 2001 23:24:07 +0000 |
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| 16817 | 1 Changes in 2.1a3 since 2.0 |
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| 14515 | 4 These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) |
| 16817 | 5 for machine-independent changes. Changes since previous alfa/beta releases for 2.1 are |
| 6 marked with [*] and at the bottom of the list. Note that 2.1a3 is a Mac-only release. | |
| 7 The machine-independent stuff is at a state somewhere between 2.1a2 and 2.1b1. | |
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9 - The good news: this release is Carbon-based, so it runs natively on MacOS 8.6 or |
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10 later and MacOSX. |
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11 - The bad news: this release is Carbon-only. The next alpha release will be both |
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12 Carbon and classic PPC. |
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13 - Distutils is included and seems to work. |
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14 - There's a new module (package, actually) mkcwproject which builds CodeWarrior |
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15 projects from simple templates. See Distutils or :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py |
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16 for examples of use. |
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17 - Windows and Dialogs can now be different beasts, so you may have to call |
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18 dlg.GetDialogWindow() where you used to be able to call window methods straight |
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19 on the dialog. This also has consequences for code using FrameWork.DialogWindow. |
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20 THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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21 - ctl.GetControlDataHandle() has been renamed to GetControlData_Handle(), and similarly |
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22 for the other variants of GetControlData and SetControlData. This was needed |
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23 because Carbon defines a completely different routine with the name GetControlDataHandle. |
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24 THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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25 - Method mac.xstat() has disappeared. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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26 - Menu.SetPopupData() and GetPopupData() are gone. Use SetPopupMenuHandle() and |
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27 SetPopupMenuID() (and the getters) in stead. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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28 - Various methods have disappeared when running under Carbon. The script |
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29 :Mac:scripts:missingcarbonmethods.py can check your sources, but you need unix to run |
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30 it. Or use it as documentation and search by hand. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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31 - The good news is that "direct access to toolbox structs" still works from Python, |
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32 so Python programmers have a lot less to fix than C programmers. |
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33 That's because the lowlevel code simply uses the accessors internally. The accessors |
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34 are available both in Carbon and Classic MacPython. |
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35 - Scrap under Carbon is, you guessed it, the Carbon Scrap Manager. Some workarounds are |
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36 provided, though. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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37 - The Internet Config routines that are missing from Carbon have been removed. This |
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38 is no problem if you use the "ic" module, but may be if you use "icglue" directly. |
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39 THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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40 - Various old toolbox names (CountMItems, EnableItem, etc) have disappeared. Use the |
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41 new forms (CountMenuItems, EnableMenuItem, etc). THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
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42 - Waste now uses Waste 2.0. |
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43 - The default memory size for the interpreter has been upped again. |
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44 - The MacOS error messages have been updated to reflect the current state of |
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45 things. This was long overdue. |
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46 - The crash in BuildApplication has been fixed. |
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47 - struct.pack related problems (in Audio_Mac, for example) have been fixed. |
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48 - (src/dev/cvs only): The project files now use the .mcp extension in stead of .prj. |
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49 Projects for almost all plugins and the img modules are automatically generated |
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50 with :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py (also called by fullbuild). The .mcp files |
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51 are not in the repository, if you don't want to use genpluginprojects you can import |
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52 the .mcp.xml files in CodeWarrior. |
| 16817 | 53 - ConfigurePython has been replace by two applets: ConfigurePythonClassic and |
| 54 ConfigurePythonCarbon. These will select either execution model for machines | |
| 55 supporting both, and it will also build all the standard applets. [*] | |
| 56 - Dlg.ModalDialog() almost invariably crashed. This showed in EasyDialogs, EditPythonPrefs | |
| 57 and meny other things. Fixed. [*] | |
| 58 - Carbon MacPython did not work with CarbonLib 1.1 or later. Fixed. [*] | |
| 59 - IDE flashed a window and complained about it. Fixed, by getting rid of regex in | |
| 60 favor of re. Code not fully tested. [*] | |
| 61 - IDE could crash on some edit operations due to WEGetUndoInfo(). Fixed. [*] | |
| 62 - time.time() again returns positive values. [*] | |
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| 65 What is not in this distribution | |
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68 - The garbage collection mods have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time. |
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69 - Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available |
| 15190 | 70 Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage. |
| 14515 | 71 |
| 72 Known problems | |
| 73 -------------- | |
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| 75 This list is far from complete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage, | |
| 76 http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. | |
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| 78 - The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter. | |
| 79 - Aliases do not work in sys.path entries. | |
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80 - The menu bar isn't always correctly restored before MacPython turns to <<terminated>>. |
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81 - Under Carbon only you may occasionally see a spurious KeyboardInterrupt. I have absolutely |
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82 no clue as to what is causing this. |