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author | Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> | 2004-10-03 08:26:36 (GMT) |
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committer | Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> | 2004-10-03 08:26:36 (GMT) |
commit | 3dac89edaf4a00412dd2b4e3b5cecb84a688803c (patch) | |
tree | 24ef6b87bb25b85cafd1da6677d4a9f555ee4c60 /PC/os2emx | |
parent | 96b3725ca0c0edf65145e929ec0600267368926e (diff) | |
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note module removals, update on BitTorrent issue
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diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx index ffc5181..c52a0eb 100644 --- a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx +++ b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Readline and GDBM are covered by the GNU General Public Licence. I think Eberhard Mattes' porting changes to BSD DB v1.85 are also GPL'ed (BSD DB itself is BSD Licenced). ncurses and expat appear to be covered by MIT style licences - please refer to the source distributions for more detail. -zlib is distributable under a very free license. GNU MP and GNU UFC are -under the GNU LGPL (see file COPYING.lib). +zlib is distributable under a very free license. GNU UFC is under the +GNU LGPL (see file COPYING.lib). My patches to the Python-2.x source distributions, and any other packages used in this port, are placed in the public domain. @@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ My development system is running OS/2 v4 with fixpack 12. - GNU GDBM (Kai Uwe Rommel's port available from Hobbes or LEO, v1.7.3) - zlib (derived from Hung-Chi Chu's port of v1.1.3, v1.1.4) - expat (distributed with Python, v1.95.6) -- GNU MP (Peter Meerwald's port available from LEO, v2.0.2) - GNU UFC (Kai Uwe Rommel's port available from LEO, v2.0.4) @@ -125,8 +124,8 @@ Where I've been able to locate the required 3rd party packages already ported to OS/2, I've built and included them. These include ncurses (_curses, _curses_panel), BSD DB (bsddb185), -GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), GNU MP (mpz) -and GNU UFC (crypt). +GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), and GNU UFC +(crypt). Expat is now included in the Python release sourceball, and the pyexpat module is always built. @@ -326,7 +325,6 @@ Procedure zlib (1.1.4) HAVE_ZLIB GNU UltraFast Crypt HAVE_UFC Tcl/Tk HAVE_TCLTK (not known to work) - GNU MP HAVE_GMPZ GNU Readline HAVE_GREADLINE BSD DB (v1.85) HAVE_BSDDB ncurses HAVE_NCURSES @@ -625,8 +623,9 @@ item 13 above), the BitTorrent curses downloader works too. I'd appreciate any success or failure reports with BitTorrent, though I've regretfully recommended that the person who reported the failure take this up with eCS support. Since this report, I have received a -followup which suggests that the problem may have been a buggy network -card driver. I think it suffices to say that BitTorrent is a fair stress +followup which suggests that the problem may be addressed by TCP/IP +fixes (IC35005+PJ29457, contained in NEWSTACK.ZIP in the Hobbes +archive). I think it suffices to say that BitTorrent is a fair stress test of a system's networking capability. 25. In the absence of an EMX implementation of the link() function, I've @@ -649,6 +648,9 @@ implementation in IBM's TCP/IP stack:- - unlike Unix, the socket endpoints don't exist in the filesystem; - by default, sockets are in binary mode. +27. As of Python 2.4, the mpz, rotor and xreadlines modules have been +dropped from the Python source tree. + ... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-( If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be @@ -688,4 +690,4 @@ Andrew MacIntyre E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au Web: http://www.andymac.org/ -11 April, 2004. +3 October, 2004. |