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| author | Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> | 2004-12-13 17:09:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Anthony Baxter <anthonybaxter@gmail.com> | 2004-12-13 17:09:28 (GMT) |
| commit | 28b81a90a63decce94203f527385c349b6bab51a (patch) | |
| tree | bd3eafee9a32d0bd7eab6bce526c637a9a3d3f73 | |
| parent | 5e9a9609be6ba066b97939beb8c5b69d44e96052 (diff) | |
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missed this stuff for release, oh well, 2.4.1 is fine
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@@ -227,14 +227,14 @@ compilers from the vendor, or one of the free compilers (gcc). Unsupported systems ------------------- -A number of features are not supported in Python 2.3 anymore. Some -support code is still present, but will be removed in Python 2.4. -If you still need to use current Python versions on these systems, -please send a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you -volunteer to support this system. - -More specifically, the following systems are not supported any -longer: +A number of features have not been supported since Python 2.3, and +the code to support them was removed in Python 2.4. If you still +need to use current Python versions on these systems, please send +a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you volunteer +to support this system. There is more detail on this in PEP 11. + +More specifically, the following systems are no longer supported: + - SunOS 4 - DYNIX - dgux @@ -319,15 +319,19 @@ Linux: A problem with threads and fork() was tracked down to a bug in takes care of this automatically. Red Hat Linux: Red Hat 9 built Python2.2 in UCS-4 mode and hacked - Tcl to support it. To compile Python2.3 with Tkinter, you will - need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag to ./configure. - - There's an executable /usr/bin/python which is Python - 1.5.2 on most older Red Hat installations; several key Red Hat tools - require this version. Python 2.1.x may be installed as - /usr/bin/python2. The Makefile installs Python as - /usr/local/bin/python, which may or may not take precedence - over /usr/bin/python, depending on how you have set up $PATH. + Tcl to support it. To compile Python with Tkinter on these + systems, you will need to pass --enable-unicode=ucs4 flag + to ./configure. This is no longer needed in Fedora Core. + + On older Red Hat releases, there's an executable + /usr/bin/python which is Python 1.5.2 on most older Red Hat + installations; several key Red Hat tools require this version. + Python 2.1.x may be installed as /usr/bin/python2 (you can also + use "make altinstall" to install Python in a way that won't replace + the 'python' executable, but instead only create a "python2.4" + binary). The Makefile installs Python as /usr/local/bin/python, + which may or may not take precedence over /usr/bin/python, depending + on how you have set up $PATH. FreeBSD 3.x and probably platforms with NCurses that use libmytinfo or similar: When using cursesmodule, the linking is not done in |