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Tweaks for MacPython 2.2b1
| author | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> |
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| date | Tue, 23 Oct 2001 22:22:09 +0000 |
| parents | 38c12faf612a |
| children | ed3dce17fc79 |
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--- a/Mac/Relnotes Tue Oct 23 22:18:10 2001 +0000 +++ b/Mac/Relnotes Tue Oct 23 22:22:09 2001 +0000 @@ -1,31 +1,39 @@ -Changes in 2.2a3 since 2.1.1 +Changes in 2.2b1 since 2.1.1 ---------------------------- These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) -for machine-independent changes. +for machine-independent changes. Changes that were already in 2.2a3 are flagged as such. + - 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 "from Res import *" to "from Carbon.Res import *". Please see the readme file for some open questions and join the discussions on pythonmac-sig if you have anything to contribute. Aside from reducing clutter this change will also benefit the - port to Mach-O/OSX Python later. + port to Mach-O/OSX Python later. [2.2a3] - On input MacPython now accepts either \n (unix style) or \r (mac style) newlines for text files. This behaviour can be turned off with a preference. - This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. + This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. [2.2a3] - 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. + This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python. [2.2a3] - Threads had a stack that was too small for many serious Python applications (20K). - They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though. -- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled. + They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though. [2.2a3] +- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled. [2.2a3] - EasyDialogs.ProgressBar now has indeterminate progressbars if you specify maxval=0. - This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer. + This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer. [2.2a3] - 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. + startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing. [2.2a3] +- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported. [2.2a3] +- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed. [2.2a3] +- C Developers: you know have control over the Python console if you are embedding + MacPython in another application, thanks to Alexandre Parenteau. :Mac:Demo:embed.html + has very minimal documentation. +- BuildCGIApplet works again. +- The CodeWarrior OSA suite missed quit(). It is back. +- Contrib:morefindertools is gone, the functionality has been integrated into + the standard module findertools.py. What is not in this distribution --------------------------------
