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authorJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2001-12-27 23:01:18 (GMT)
committerJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2001-12-27 23:01:18 (GMT)
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-Changes in 2.2c1 since 2.1.1
+Changes in 2.2 since 2.1.1
----------------------------
These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
-for machine-independent changes. Changes that are new in 2.2c1 are flagged as such.
+for machine-independent changes.
- The main change is that all toolbox modules have moved to a package called Carbon.
@@ -11,27 +11,27 @@ for machine-independent changes. Changes that are new in 2.2c1 are flagged as su
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.
-- All toolbox modules have been updated to Universal Headers 3.4. [2.2c1]
+- All toolbox modules have been updated to Universal Headers 3.4.
- Toolbox modules are weaklinked against InterfaceLib (for PPC builds) and raise
- an exception when you call an unimplemented one on an old MacOS. [2.2c1]
+ an exception when you call an unimplemented one on an old MacOS.
- 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.
-- The IDE looks better on OS X, but still not as good as on OS9. [2.2c1]
+- The IDE looks better on OS X, but still not as good as on OS9.
- Command-dot handling has been improved a lot: scripts are now much easier to interrupt,
and they only scan for cmd-. while in the foreground.
- "Copy" from the MacPython console window was always disabled. Fixed.
- This release should run on MacOS 8.1 again.
- A new, rather different GUSI I/O library is used.
-- time.time() returns positive values again. [2.2c1]
+- time.time() returns positive values again.
- 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.
- (Carbon only) experimental modules Carbon.CG (CoreGraphics) and CarbonEvt have
- been added. [2.2c1]
+ been added.
- A new, experimental module hfsplus is included, which gives access to some of the
functionality of the HFS+ API.
-- A new, experimental module gives access to Carbon Events. [2.2c1]
+- A new, experimental module gives access to Carbon Events.
- 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.
@@ -52,11 +52,6 @@ for machine-independent changes. Changes that are new in 2.2c1 are flagged as su
- Contrib:morefindertools is gone, the functionality has been integrated into
the standard module findertools.py.
-What is not in this distribution
---------------------------------
-
-- The toolbox modules have not all been updated to Universal Header 3.4 or CarbonLib 1.4 yet.
-
Known problems
--------------
@@ -65,7 +60,8 @@ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.
- MacPython 2.2 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X
machine, it will quickly deadlock during I/O operations. The GUSI I/O library is suspected,
- hints/clues/workarounds are solicited.
+ hints/clues/workarounds are solicited. This problem also occurs intermittently on fast
+ OS X single-processor machines.
- Tkinter does not work under Carbon.
- The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter.
- Tkinter file events do not work, unless you have opened the file through Tcl (but then