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authorMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-04-17 20:33:40 (GMT)
committerMarc-André Lemburg <mal@egenix.com>2002-04-17 20:33:40 (GMT)
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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