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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 |