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diff --git a/Mac/Relnotes b/Mac/Relnotes index 2e6feb4..bec46fc 100644 --- a/Mac/Relnotes +++ b/Mac/Relnotes @@ -1,21 +1,42 @@ - Release notes for MacPython 1.5a4 + Release notes for MacPython 1.5b3 --------------------------------- + +Open Issues and bugs: + +- Packages ("dotted import") appears to have problems for the cfm68k version + of MacPython. Please report anything of interest you find as soon as possible, + preferrably to pythonmac-sig@python.org. +- import test.autotest fails the test_strftime test on %%. This is a bug in the + MetroWerks C strftime() routine. Test_re takes a loooooooooong time, by the way. +- Tk menus may or may not work. Please let me know. +- Occasionally Python becomes non-reactive to mouseclicks after switching it to + background and foreground again. If you experience this please let me know, + explaining the circumstances. +- Printing a NumPy "array([1.2])" may cause a crash in cfm68k-Python. If you have + a 68k machine, a MetroWerks debugger, time and interest in NumPy: please let me + know and I'll ask you to help hunting this bug. + +Changes since the previous version: Here are the mac-specific changes since MacPython 1.4, with end-user-visible changes near the top and API changes and other things that are developer-only -more to the bottom. Changes marked with a [*] are new changes, since -1.5a3. And, of course, all Guido's 1.5a4 changes are incorporated. +more to the bottom. Changes marked with a [*] are new changes since +1.5a3 (there has not been a MacPython 1.5b1). And, of course, all Guido's +1.5-final changes are incorporated. -- Balloon help in set-preferences dialog and EditPythonPrefs [*] -- An interface to the Help Maganer has been added [*] +- Moved Mac:Lib:toolbox and scripting to lib-toolbox and lib-scripting, analogous + to Guido's changes. Initial sys.path settings reflect this change [*] +- Added cPickle and cStringIO modules [*] +- Balloon help in set-preferences dialog and EditPythonPrefs +- An interface to the Help Maganer has been added - New modules "preferences" and "pythonprefs" which allow access to Python preferences and implements a general preference-handling - framework. New EditPythonPrefs uses this. [*] + framework. New EditPythonPrefs uses this. - Applescript suite modules are now in a separate Mac:Lib:scripting - folder [*] -- Most modules now export their type objects [*] -- MacOS.SysBeep() and MacOS.GetTicks() added [*] -- sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are now set correctly [*] + folder +- Most modules now export their type objects +- MacOS.SysBeep() and MacOS.GetTicks() added +- sys.prefix and sys.exec_prefix are now set correctly - Installation is now through an installer - mkapplet and MkPluginAliases have been renamed to BuildApplet and ConfigurePython @@ -67,7 +88,7 @@ more to the bottom. Changes marked with a [*] are new changes, since - img: better error handling for truncated images and such - img: imgop.unpack() can unpack formats with multiple pixels per byte -- build numbers work and are maintained in macbuildno.h by fullbuild.py [*] +- build numbers work and are maintained in macbuildno.h by fullbuild.py - We now use CW Pro 1, with multitarget projects and such goodies - fixed xx plugin project for cfm68k - All files updated to new Py_ naming convention |