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authorJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2001-09-08 21:38:26 (GMT)
committerJack Jansen <jack.jansen@cwi.nl>2001-09-08 21:38:26 (GMT)
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Final tweaks for 2.2a3 distribution.
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-Changes in 2.2a2 since 2.1.1
+Changes in 2.2a3 since 2.1.1
----------------------------
These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
-for machine-independent changes. But note that more things may have changed: MacPython
-2.2a2 is built from newer sources than unix/windows 2.2a2 (for CVS users: the r22a2-mac
-tag is what you are looking for).
+for machine-independent changes.
- The main change is that all toolbox modules have moved to a package called Carbon.
So things like "import Res" should be changed to "from Carbon import Res", and
@@ -13,7 +11,8 @@ tag is what you are looking for).
to contribute. Aside from reducing clutter this change will also benefit the
port to Mach-O/OSX Python later.
- On input MacPython now accepts either \n (unix style) or \r (mac style) newlines
- for text files. This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested.
+ for text files. This behaviour can be turned off with a preference.
+ This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested.
- 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.
@@ -22,6 +21,9 @@ tag is what you are looking for).
- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled.
- EasyDialogs.ProgressBar now has indeterminate progressbars if you specify maxval=0.
This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer.
+- There are new preferences for enabling old-style division warnings and for
+ accepting unix-style newlines in text input files. These can also be set during
+ startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing.
- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported.
- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed.
@@ -38,7 +40,7 @@ Known problems
This list is probably incomplete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage,
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.
-- MacPython 2.2a2 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X
+- MacPython 2.2a3 (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.
- Tkinter does not work under Carbon.