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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ -How to install Python 1.5.2b1 on your Macintosh ------------------------------------------------ +How to install Python 1.6a1 on your Macintosh +--------------------------------------------- If this is your first encounter with Python: you definitely need the common user documentation (common to all platforms). You can find this @@ -13,11 +13,20 @@ now. The documentation is in HTML format, start with index.html. Caveats ------- -There are still problems with cfm68k Python. 68K Mac users should -probably try to use the cfm68k distribution first, and revert to the -classic 68k distribution in case the bugs make their Python -unworkable. The main problem is that packages ("dotted import") and -NumPy printing don't work. +This is an alfa version, and for this once it really means that: there +are quite a few features that have only lightly been tested, and bugs are +to be expected. + +Aside from the general Python 1.6 features like unicode support the +main new features of this MacPython release is support for multithreading. +This has not been tested very well. + +This installer installs MacPython for PowerPC only, whether a 68K distribution +of Python 1.6 will happen is not certain at the moment. There is no Tkinter +in this installer. + +All references to 68k, cfm68k and Tkinter in this document and in the +installer should be ignored: it really isn't there. What to install --------------- |