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| author | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2002-04-17 20:33:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Marc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> | 2002-04-17 20:33:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 1ec71ea48e344a556bf1ecfbe5d31913f48c091c (patch) | |
| tree | 67a66358e1543129a5f657c9f8542913f0ac5fdb | |
| parent | 0538f1f2c7171ceb0940fd3865172ad164d2005e (diff) | |
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Added note about new distutils commands.
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@@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ Extension modules Library +- New distutils commands for building packagers were added to + support pkgtool on Solaris and swinstall on HP-UX. + +- distutils now has a new abstract binary packager base class + command/bdist_packager, which simplifies writing packagers. + This will hopefully provide the missing bits to encourage + people to submit more packagers, e.g. for Debian, FreeBSD + and other systems. + - The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is |