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diff --git a/Mac/Relnotes b/Mac/Relnotes index 8614c4b..2bfe003 100644 --- a/Mac/Relnotes +++ b/Mac/Relnotes @@ -1,8 +1,8 @@ -Changes in 2.2b1 since 2.1.1 +Changes in 2.2b2 since 2.1.1 ---------------------------- These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) -for machine-independent changes. Changes that were already in 2.2a3 are flagged as such. +for machine-independent changes. Changes that are new in 2.2b2 are flagged as such. - The main change is that all toolbox modules have moved to a package called Carbon. @@ -10,23 +10,33 @@ for machine-independent changes. Changes that were already in 2.2a3 are flagged "from Res import *" to "from Carbon.Res import *". Please see the readme file for some open questions and join the discussions on pythonmac-sig if you have anything to contribute. Aside from reducing clutter this change will also benefit the - port to Mach-O/OSX Python later. [2.2a3] + port to Mach-O/OSX Python later. - On input MacPython now accepts either \n (unix style) or \r (mac style) newlines for text files. This behaviour can be turned off with a preference. - This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. [2.2a3] + This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested. +- Command-dot handling has been improved a lot: scripts are now much easier to interrupt, + and they only scan for cmd-. while in the foreground. [2.2b2] +- "Copy" from the MacPython console window was always disabled. Fixed. [2.2b2] +- This release should run on MacOS 8.1 again. [2.2b2 build 116] +- A new, rather different GUSI I/O library is used. Please report any strange behaviour + with I/O to the pythonmac-sig mailing list! [2.2b2] - There is a new module macresource which makes it easier to open a resource file accompanying your script when the script is not (yet) converted to an applet. - This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python. [2.2a3] + This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python. +- A new, experimental module hfsplus is included, which gives access to some of the + functionality of the HFS+ API. [2.2b2] - Threads had a stack that was too small for many serious Python applications (20K). - They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though. [2.2a3] -- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled. [2.2a3] + They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though. +- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled. - EasyDialogs.ProgressBar now has indeterminate progressbars if you specify maxval=0. - This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer. [2.2a3] + This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer. - There are new preferences for enabling old-style division warnings and for accepting unix-style newlines in text input files. These can also be set during - startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing. [2.2a3] -- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported. [2.2a3] -- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed. [2.2a3] + startup, and in addition you can select very verbose import tracing. +- The NavServices override for StandardFile has moved from early startup to the + time you import macfs. This speeds up MacPython startup. +- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported. +- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed. - C Developers: you know have control over the Python console if you are embedding MacPython in another application, thanks to Alexandre Parenteau. :Mac:Demo:embed.html has very minimal documentation. @@ -48,7 +58,7 @@ Known problems This list is probably incomplete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. -- MacPython 2.2a3 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X +- MacPython 2.2b2 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X machine, it will quickly deadlock during I/O operations. The GUSI I/O library is suspected, hints/clues/workarounds are solicited. - Tkinter does not work under Carbon. @@ -56,8 +66,6 @@ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. - Tkinter file events do not work, unless you have opened the file through Tcl (but then you cannot access it from Python). - Aliases may not work in sys.path entries. -- Under Carbon on OS9 only you may occasionally see a spurious KeyboardInterrupt. I have absolutely - no clue as to what is causing this. - PythonInterpreter used interactively will eat a lot of processor cycles. You should use PythonIDE for interactive work and PythonInterpreter for scripts only. This is especially true under OSX. |