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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-09-13 17:41:16 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2008-09-13 17:41:16 (GMT)
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Remove things specific to the old Macintosh, and spell "Mac OS X" consistently.
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-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/apiref.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst4
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/commandref.rst2
-rw-r--r--Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst4
4 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
index f5b49b8..a8f7461 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/apiref.rst
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ This module provides the following functions.
``'posix'``, ``'nt'``), and *compiler* defaults to the default compiler for
that platform. Currently only ``'posix'`` and ``'nt'`` are supported, and the
default compilers are "traditional Unix interface" (:class:`UnixCCompiler`
- class) and Visual C++(:class:`MSVCCompiler` class). Note that it's perfectly
+ class) and Visual C++ (:class:`MSVCCompiler` class). Note that it's perfectly
possible to ask for a Unix compiler object under Windows, and a Microsoft
compiler object under Unix---if you supply a value for *compiler*, *plat* is
ignored.
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
index c4b8dbf..58b62f8 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/builtdist.rst
@@ -302,8 +302,8 @@ or the :command:`bdist` command with the :option:`--formats` option::
If you have a pure module distribution (only containing pure Python modules and
packages), the resulting installer will be version independent and have a name
-like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`. These installers can even be created on Unix or
-Mac OS platforms.
+like :file:`foo-1.0.win32.exe`. These installers can even be created on Unix
+platforms or Mac OS X.
If you have a non-pure distribution, the extensions can only be created on a
Windows platform, and will be Python version dependent. The installer filename
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst b/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst
index f5f0220..fbe40de 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/commandref.rst
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ regular filename characters, ``?`` matches any single regular filename
character, and ``[range]`` matches any of the characters in *range* (e.g.,
``a-z``, ``a-zA-Z``, ``a-f0-9_.``). The definition of "regular filename
character" is platform-specific: on Unix it is anything except slash; on Windows
-anything except backslash or colon; on Mac OS 9 anything except colon.
+anything except backslash or colon.
**\*\*** Windows support not there yet **\*\***
diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
index d2be083..1e540ed 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst
@@ -46,9 +46,7 @@ Distutils will take care of converting this platform-neutral representation into
whatever is appropriate on your current platform before actually using the
pathname. This makes your setup script portable across operating systems, which
of course is one of the major goals of the Distutils. In this spirit, all
-pathnames in this document are slash-separated. (Mac OS 9 programmers should
-keep in mind that the *absence* of a leading slash indicates a relative path,
-the opposite of the Mac OS convention with colons.)
+pathnames in this document are slash-separated.
This, of course, only applies to pathnames given to Distutils functions. If
you, for example, use standard Python functions such as :func:`glob.glob` or