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diff Mac/Relnotes @ 19811:38c12faf612a legacy-trunk
Final tweaks for 2.2a3 distribution.
| author | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> |
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| date | Sat, 08 Sep 2001 21:38:26 +0000 |
| parents | cea7fea1742b |
| children | 6f2cb18068dd |
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--- a/Mac/Relnotes Sat Sep 08 16:23:34 2001 +0000 +++ b/Mac/Relnotes Sat Sep 08 21:38:26 2001 +0000 @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ -Changes in 2.2a2 since 2.1.1 +Changes in 2.2a3 since 2.1.1 ---------------------------- These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) -for machine-independent changes. But note that more things may have changed: MacPython -2.2a2 is built from newer sources than unix/windows 2.2a2 (for CVS users: the r22a2-mac -tag is what you are looking for). +for machine-independent changes. - The main change is that all toolbox modules have moved to a package called Carbon. So things like "import Res" should be changed to "from Carbon import Res", and @@ -13,7 +11,8 @@ to contribute. Aside from reducing clutter this change will also benefit the port to Mach-O/OSX Python later. - On input MacPython now accepts either \n (unix style) or \r (mac style) newlines - for text files. This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. + for text files. This behaviour can be turned off with a preference. + This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. - There is a new module macresource which makes it easier to open a resource file accompanying your script when the script is not (yet) converted to an applet. This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python. @@ -22,6 +21,9 @@ - Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled. - EasyDialogs.ProgressBar now has indeterminate progressbars if you specify maxval=0. This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer. +- There are new preferences for enabling old-style division warnings and for + accepting unix-style newlines in text input files. These can also be set during + startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing. - Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported. - Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed. @@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ This list is probably incomplete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. -- MacPython 2.2a2 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X +- MacPython 2.2a3 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X machine, it will quickly deadlock during I/O operations. The GUSI I/O library is suspected, hints/clues/workarounds are solicited. - Tkinter does not work under Carbon.
