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diff --git a/Mac/Relnotes b/Mac/Relnotes index 3abe6c9..006c359 100644 --- a/Mac/Relnotes +++ b/Mac/Relnotes @@ -1,16 +1,47 @@ Changes in 2.0b1 since 1.5.2 ---------------------------- +These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) +for machine-independent changes. + Unfortunately I have messed my administration up, so I can't give complete Mac-specific release notes for the changes in this release. So, I will have to leave it at the highlights: - 68K support has been dropped, this release is PPC only. - Threads support (through standard Python threads module). +- Tkinter works again! At least: it doesn't immedeately crash in obvious ways. - Appearance support through App module and added calls in many other modules. + Most dialogs and applets have also been converted to Appearance. There's also a + ControlAccessor module that handles [GS]etControlData with their plethora of + argument types. - Navigation Services support, with macfs StandardFile calls transparently replaced by their NavServices counterparts. -- Offscreen QuickDraw support through Qdoffs module. +- Offscreen QuickDraw and GWorld support through Qdoffs module. - Drag manager support (Drag module). -- Much better CGI support, see :Mac:Tools:CGI. +- Much better CGI support and examples, see :Mac:Tools:CGI. - Better OSA/AppleEvent support. +- Up/downcasting of handle-based types is now unified and implemented in the + inherting module, e.g. + handleobj = ctlobj.as_Resource() + ctlobj = Ctl.as_Control(handle) +- Added macos.FreeMem(), MaxBlock() and CompactMem(), mainly so apps in Python can + give low-memory warnings. +- MediaDescr module parses some QuickTime media descriptions (but definitely not all). + +What is not in this distribution +-------------------------------- + +- The garbage collection mods to 2.0 have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time. +- Stackless Python/microthreads are not in here. Ask on the pythonmac-SIG if you want them. +- Carbon support is not in here, but should be happening as soon as GUSI is ready. +- Distutils is not in here, again due to lack of time. + +Known problems +-------------- + +This list is far from complete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage, +http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. + +- The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter. +- Aliases do not work in sys.path entries. |