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authorMichael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>2002-06-23 16:29:36 (GMT)
committerMichael W. Hudson <mwh@python.net>2002-06-23 16:29:36 (GMT)
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@@ -88,8 +88,8 @@ access. The documentation is available in HTML, PostScript, PDF, and
LaTeX formats; the LaTeX version is primarily for documentation
authors, translators, and people with special formatting requirements.
-The best documentation for the new (in Python 2.2) type/class unification
-features is Guido's tutorial introduction, at
+The best documentation for the new (in Python 2.2) type/class
+unification features is Guido's tutorial introduction, at
http://www.python.org/2.2/descrintro.html
@@ -100,7 +100,8 @@ Web sites
New Python releases and related technologies are published at
http://www.python.org/. Come visit us!
-There's also a Python community web site at http://starship.python.net/.
+There's also a Python community web site at
+http://starship.python.net/.
Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
@@ -112,8 +113,8 @@ for Python-related announcements. These are also accessible as
mailing lists: see http://www.python.org/psa/MailingLists.html for an
overview of the many Python-related mailing lists.
-Archives are accessible via Deja.com Usenet News: see
-http://www.deja.com/usenet. The mailing lists are also archived, see
+Archives are accessible via the Google Groups usenet archive; see
+http://groups.google.com/. The mailing lists are also archived, see
http://www.python.org/psa/MailingLists.html for details.
@@ -925,11 +926,11 @@ platforms -- see http://www.python.org/.
To port Python to a new non-UNIX system, you will have to fake the
effect of running the configure script manually (for Mac and PC, this
has already been done for you). A good start is to copy the file
-config.h.in to config.h and edit the latter to reflect the actual
+pyconfig.h.in to pyconfig.h and edit the latter to reflect the actual
configuration of your system. Most symbols must simply be defined as
1 only if the corresponding feature is present and can be left alone
-otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some variant
-of int if they need to be defined at all.
+otherwise; however the *_t type symbols must be defined as some
+variant of int if they need to be defined at all.
For all platforms, it's important that the build arrange to define the
preprocessor symbol NDEBUG on the compiler command line in a release
@@ -996,6 +997,7 @@ Grammar/ Input for the parser generator
Include/ Public header files
LICENSE Licensing information
Lib/ Python library modules
+Mac/ Macintosh specific resources
Makefile.pre.in Source from which config.status creates the Makefile.pre
Misc/ Miscellaneous useful files
Modules/ Implementation of most built-in modules
@@ -1006,8 +1008,7 @@ Parser/ The parser and tokenizer and their input handling
Python/ The byte-compiler and interpreter
README The file you're reading now
Tools/ Some useful programs written in Python
-acconfig.h Additional input for the GNU autoheader program
-config.h.in Source from which config.h is created (GNU autoheader output)
+pyconfig.h.in Source from which pyconfig.h is created (GNU autoheader output)
configure Configuration shell script (GNU autoconf output)
configure.in Configuration specification (input for GNU autoconf)
install-sh Shell script used to install files
@@ -1017,9 +1018,9 @@ the configuration and build processes:
Makefile Build rules
Makefile.pre Build rules before running Modules/makesetup
-buildno Keeps track of the build number
+buildno Keeps track of the build number
config.cache Cache of configuration variables
-config.h Configuration header
+pyconfig.h Configuration header
config.log Log from last configure run
config.status Status from last run of the configure script
getbuildinfo.o Object file from Modules/getbuildinfo.c