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-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/CREDITS.txt5
-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt22
-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt4
-rw-r--r--Lib/idlelib/setup.cfg2
4 files changed, 18 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/CREDITS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/CREDITS.txt
index 3218804..fd7af95 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/CREDITS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/CREDITS.txt
@@ -24,8 +24,9 @@ Hernan Foffani, Christos Georgiou, Jason Orendorff, Josh Robb, and Bruce
Sherwood have submitted useful patches. Thanks, guys!
There are others who should be included here, especially those who contributed
-to IDLE versions prior to 0.8, principally Mark Hammond, Tim Peters, and Moshe
-Zadka. For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and Changelog.
+to IDLE versions prior to 0.8, principally Mark Hammond, Jeremy Hylton,
+Tim Peters, and Moshe Zadka. For additional details refer to NEWS.txt and
+Changelog.
Please contact the IDLEfork maintainer to have yourself included here if you
are one of those we missed!
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt b/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt
index 630597f..ed7ac69 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/INSTALL.txt
@@ -12,16 +12,13 @@ IDLEfork-0.9xx.win32.exe
point your launcher icons at it. Installation is as idlefork
to avoid conflict with the original Python IDLE.
-IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm
- This is an rpm which is designed to install as idleforklib in the
- /usr/lib/python2.2 tree created by the Python2 rpm. It requires
- python2 and python2-tkinter rpms. It installs as idlefork to avoid
+IDLEfork-0.9xx-1.noarch.rpm
+ This is an rpm which is designed to install as idleforklib in an
+ existing /usr/lib/python2.2 tree. It installs as idlefork to avoid
conflict with Python IDLE.
- The Python2 rpm is designed to work with Redhat systems prior to Rev 8.
- It is available at http://www.python.org/2.2.2/rpms.html and
- http://www.python.org/2.2.1/rpms.html . See the warning/explanation
- on the latter web page, which discusses the reason for python2.
+ Python rpms are available at http://www.python.org/2.2.2/rpms.html and
+ http://www.python.org/2.2.1/rpms.html.
IDLEfork-0.9xx.tar.gz
This is a distutils sdist (source) tarfile which can be used to make
@@ -29,17 +26,22 @@ IDLEfork-0.9xx.tar.gz
** It remains configured to install as idlelib, not idleforklib. **
Unpack in ..../Tools/, cd to the IDLEfork directory created, and
- <python setup.py install> to install in ....site-packages/idlelib.
+ "python setup.py install" to install in ....site-packages/idlelib.
This will overwrite the Python IDLE installation.
If you don't want to overwrite Python IDLE, it is also possible to
- simply call <python idle.py> to run from the IDLEfork source directory
+ simply call "python idle.py" to run from the IDLEfork source directory
without making an installation. In this case, IDLE will not be on
your PATH unless you are in the source directory. Also, it is then
advisable to remove any Python IDLE installation by removing
..../site-packages/idlelib so the two identically named packages don't
conflict.
+ On Redhat Linux systems prior to 8.0, /usr/bin/python may be pointing
+ at python1.5. If so, change the first line in the /usr/bin/idle
+ script to read:
+ !# /usr/bin/python2.2
+
See README.txt for more details on this version of IDLEfork.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 12e677d..dd932f6 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -2,10 +2,10 @@
IDLEfork NEWS
+++++++++++++
-What's New in IDLEfork 0.9 Alpha 3?
+What's New in IDLEfork?
===================================
-*Release date: xx-xxx-2003*
+*Release date: 25-Apr-2003*
- Implemented the 'interrupt' extension module, which allows a subthread
to raise a KeyboardInterrupt in the main thread.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/setup.cfg b/Lib/idlelib/setup.cfg
index bff02fe..c4b5729 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/setup.cfg
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/setup.cfg
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
[bdist_rpm]
release = 1
packager = Kurt B. Kaiser <kbk@shore.net>
-requires = python2, python2-tkinter
+