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@@ -1,3 +1,72 @@ +======================================== +==> Release 1.0.1 (15 February 1994) <== +======================================== + +* Many portability fixes should make it painless to build Python on +several new platforms, e.g. NeXT, SEQUENT, WATCOM, DOS, and Windows. + +* Fixed test for <stdarg.h> -- this broke on some platforms. + +* Fixed test for shared library dynalic loading -- this broke on SunOS +4.x using the GNU loader. + +* Changed order and number of SVR4 networking libraries (it is now +-lsocket -linet -lnsl, if these libraries exist). + +* Installing the build intermediate stages with "make libainstall" now +also installs config.c.in, Setup and makesetup, which are used by the +new Extensions mechanism. + +* Improved README file contains more hints and new troubleshooting +section. + +* The built-in module strop now defines fast versions of three more +functions of the standard string module: atoi(), atol() and atof(). +The strop versions of atoi() and atol() support an optional second +argument to specify the base (default 10). NOTE: you don't have to +explicitly import strop to use the faster versions -- the string +module contains code to let versions from stop override the default +versions. + +* There is now a working Lib/dospath.py for those who use Python under +DOS (or Windows). Thanks, Jaap! + +* There is now a working Modules/dosmodule.c for DOS (or Windows) +system calls. + +* Lib.os.py has been reorganized (making it ready for more operating +systems). + +* Lib/ospath.py is now obsolete (use os.path instead). + +* Many fixes to the tutorial to make it match Python 1.0. Thanks, +Tim! + +* Fixed Doc/Makefile, Doc/README and various scripts there. + +* Added missing description of fdopen to Doc/libposix.tex. + +* Made cleanup() global, for the benefit of embedded applications. + +* Added parsing of addresses and dates to Lib/rfc822.py. + +* Small fixes to Lib/aifc.py, Lib/sunau.py, Lib/tzparse.py to make +them usable at all. + +* New module Lib/wave.py reads RIFF (*.wav) audio files. + +* Module Lib/filewin.py moved to Lib/stdwin/filewin.py where it +belongs. + +* New options and comments for Modules/makesetup (used by new +Extension mechanism). + +* Misc/HYPE contains text of announcement of 1.0.0 in comp.lang.misc +and elsewhere. + +* Fixed coredump in filter(None, 'abcdefg'). + + ======================================= ==> Release 1.0.0 (26 January 1994) <== ======================================= |