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-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS52
2 files changed, 57 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index fb2a4ce..4dfc84e 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Without you I would've stopped working on Python long ago!
--Guido
Mark Anacker
+Stig Bakken
Ulf Bartelt
Anthony Baxter
Donald Beaudry
@@ -18,6 +19,7 @@ Stephen Bevan
Jurjen Bos
Peter Bosch
Eric Bouck
+Monty Brandenberg
Terrence Brannon
Dave Brennan
Erik de Bueger
@@ -30,6 +32,7 @@ Steve Clift
Matt Conway
Tom Culliton
John Cugini
+Eric Daniel
Jonathan Dasteel
John DeGood
Roger Dev
@@ -50,6 +53,7 @@ Barry Hantman
Lynda Hardman
Rycharde Hawkes
Ivan Herman
+Kevan Heydon
David Hobley
Chris Hoffman
Philip Homburg
@@ -63,6 +67,7 @@ Lou Kates
Steve Kirsch
Bob Kras
Andrew Kuchling
+Soren Larsen
William Lewis
Robert van Liere
Anne Lord
@@ -87,6 +92,7 @@ Tim Peters
Adrian Phillips
Amrit Prem
John Redford
+Steven Reiz
Timothy Roscoe
Jim Roskind
Kevin Samborn
@@ -104,6 +110,7 @@ Jim St. Pierre
Quentin Stafford-Fraser
Richard Stoakley
Casper Stoel
+Ken Stox
Tracy Tims
R Lindsay Todd
Bennett Todd
@@ -116,4 +123,5 @@ Steve Waterbury
Bob Watson
Rickard Westman
Dik Winter
+hajime@jsk.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp
tim@prl.philips.nl
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fe3fd57..3515d8f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
===================================
-- Most known bugs have been fixed. For example the pow(2,2,3L) bug on
-Linux has been fixed. Also the re-entrancy problems with __del__ have
-been fixed.
+- Virtually all known bugs have been fixed. For example the
+pow(2,2,3L) bug on Linux has been fixed. Also the re-entrancy
+problems with __del__ have been fixed.
- Most known memory leaks have been fixed.
@@ -63,6 +63,52 @@ shortly, plus instructions on how to compile with THINK C 6.0.)
- Used autoconf 2.0 to generate the configure script. Adapted
configure.in to use the new features in autoconf 2.0.
+- It should now build on the NeXT without intervention, even on the
+3.3 Sparc pre-release.
+
+- __import__ is now called with 4 arguments:
+(modulename, globals, locals, fromlist)
+
+- Characters passed to isspace() and friends are masked to nonnegative
+values
+
+- Correctly compute pow(-3.0, 3)
+
+- Fix portability problems with getopt (configure now checks for a
+non-GNU getopt)
+
+- Don't add frozenmain.o to libPython.a
+
+- Exceptions can now be classes
+
+- The socket module exports a long list of socket related symbols
+
+- Lots of Mac specific changes (this area of the source is not
+completed!)
+
+- When a module object is deleted, it clears out its own dictionary
+(this fixes a circularity in the references between functions and
+their global dictionary)
+
+- Changed the error handling by [new]getargs() e.g. for "O&"
+
+- Dynamic loading of modules using shared libraries is supported for
+several new platforms
+
+- Support "O&" in mkvalue()
+
+- Extension to findmethod(): findmethodinchain() (where a chain is a
+linked list of methodlist arrays)
+
+- Callable() function is now public
+
+
+Known bugs still remaining:
+---------------------------
+
+- There's still a memory leak in threads; bigger when
+thread.exit_thread() is used
+
--Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl>
URL: <http://www.cwi.nl/cwi/people/Guido.van.Rossum.html>