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| author | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> | 2001-03-06 22:42:12 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl> | 2001-03-06 22:42:12 (GMT) |
| commit | cbe7b1c93e1c428356e48eb5512bdffd20ceca94 (patch) | |
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| parent | 81e4b1c5c8307285c89952c3ee9c9f5c3d4896f3 (diff) | |
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Files for 2.1b1 distribution.
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diff --git a/Mac/Relnotes b/Mac/Relnotes index 1047fdd..c4831ca 100644 --- a/Mac/Relnotes +++ b/Mac/Relnotes @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ -Changes in 2.1a3 since 2.0 +Changes in 2.1b1 since 2.0 -------------------------- These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) for machine-independent changes. Changes since previous alfa/beta releases for 2.1 are -marked with [*] and at the bottom of the list. Note that 2.1a3 is a Mac-only release. -The machine-independent stuff is at a state somewhere between 2.1a2 and 2.1b1. +marked with [*] and at the bottom of the list. - The good news: this release is Carbon-based, so it runs natively on MacOS 8.6 or later and MacOSX. -- The bad news: this release is Carbon-only. The next alpha release will be both - Carbon and classic PPC. +- Alternatively there is a classic PPC interpreter as well. There are two reasons you + might want to use this: (a) you have a pre-MacOS9 system and don't want to install + CarbonLib, or (b) you need Tkinter, for which no Carbon version is available yet. - Distutils is included and seems to work. - There's a new module (package, actually) mkcwproject which builds CodeWarrior projects from simple templates. See Distutils or :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py @@ -60,6 +60,13 @@ The machine-independent stuff is at a state somewhere between 2.1a2 and 2.1b1. favor of re. Code not fully tested. [*] - IDE could crash on some edit operations due to WEGetUndoInfo(). Fixed. [*] - time.time() again returns positive values. [*] +- Classic PPC is included again. [*] +- Numeric is included again. It is now built using distutils, and lives in :Lib:site-python. + This makes it a lot easier to replace Numeric with a new version (when one comes out). [*] +- PIL is included again. [*] +- PythonInterpreterCarbon and PythonInterpreterClassic are now files of type "Atmp", not + "APPL", so there should not be any confusion as to what the real application is + (PythonInterpreter). [*] What is not in this distribution |