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Let me know if this is acceptable. ====================================================================== + +From 1.5.2c1 to 1.5.2 (final) +============================= + +Tue Apr 13 15:44:49 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> + + * PCbuild/python15.wse: Bump version to 1.5.2 (final) + + * PCbuild/python15.dsp: Added shamodule.c + + * PC/config.c: Added sha module! + + * README, Include/patchlevel.h: Prepare for final release. + + * Misc/ACKS: + More (Cameron Laird is honorary; the others are 1.5.2c1 testers). + + * Python/thread_solaris.h: + While I can't really test this thoroughly, Pat Knight and the Solaris + man pages suggest that the proper thing to do is to add THR_NEW_LWP to + the flags on thr_create(), and that there really isn't a downside, so + I'll do that. + + * Misc/ACKS: + Bunch of new names who helped iron out the last wrinkles of 1.5.2. + + * PC/python_nt.rc: + Bump the myusterious M$ version number from 1,5,2,1 to 1,5,2,3. + (I can't even display this on NT, maybe Win/98 can?) + + * Lib/pstats.py: + Fix mysterious references to jprofile that were in the source since + its creation. I'm assuming these were once valid references to "Jim + Roskind's profile"... + + * Lib/Attic/threading_api.py: + Removed; since long subsumed in Doc/lib/libthreading.tex + + * Modules/socketmodule.c: + Put back __osf__ support for gethostbyname_r(); the real bug was that + it was being used even without threads. This of course might be an + all-platform problem so now we only use the _r variant when we are + using threads. + +Mon Apr 12 22:51:20 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> + + * Modules/cPickle.c: + Fix accidentally reversed NULL test in load_mark(). Suggested by + Tamito Kajiyama. (This caused a bug only on platforms where malloc(0) + returns NULL.) + + * README: + Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer. + + * README: Add note about -D_REENTRANT for HP-UX 10.20. + + * Modules/Makefile.pre.in: 'clean' target should remove hassignal. + + * PC/Attic/vc40.mak, PC/readme.txt: + Remove all VC++ info (except VC 1.5) from readme.txt; + remove the VC++ 4.0 project file; remove the unused _tkinter extern defs. + + * README: Clarify PC build instructions (point to PCbuild). + + * Modules/zlibmodule.c: Cast added by Jack Jansen (for Mac port). + + * Lib/plat-sunos5/CDIO.py, Lib/plat-linux2/CDROM.py: + Forgot to add this file. CDROM device parameters. + + * Lib/gzip.py: Two different changes. + + 1. Jack Jansen reports that on the Mac, the time may be negative, and + solves this by adding a write32u() function that writes an unsigned + long. + + 2. On 64-bit platforms the CRC comparison fails; I've fixed this by + casting both values to be compared to "unsigned long" i.e. modulo + 0x100000000L. + +Sat Apr 10 18:42:02 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> + + * PC/Attic/_tkinter.def: No longer needed. + + * Misc/ACKS: Correct missed character in Andrew Dalke's name. + + * README: Add DEC Ultrix notes (from Donn Cave's email). + + * configure: The usual + + * configure.in: + Quote a bunch of shell variables used in test, related to long-long. + + * Objects/fileobject.c, Modules/shamodule.c, Modules/regexpr.c: + casts for picky compilers. + + * Modules/socketmodule.c: + 3-arg gethostbyname_r doesn't really work on OSF/1. + + * PC/vc15_w31/_.c, PC/vc15_lib/_.c, Tools/pynche/__init__.py: + Avoid totally empty files. + +Fri Apr 9 14:56:35 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> + + * Tools/scripts/fixps.py: Use re instead of regex. + Don't rewrite the file in place. + (Reported by Andy Dustman.) + + * Lib/netrc.py, Lib/shlex.py: Get rid of #! line + +Thu Apr 8 23:13:37 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> + + * PCbuild/python15.wse: Use the Tcl 8.0.5 installer. + Add a variable %_TCL_% that makes it easier to switch to a different version. + + +====================================================================== + + From 1.5.2b2 to 1.5.2c1 ======================= -Thu Apr 8 17:23:11 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> +Thu Apr 8 23:13:37 1999 Guido van Rossum <guido@eric.cnri.reston.va.us> + + * PCbuild/python15.wse: + Release 1.5.2c1. Add IDLE and Uninstall to program group. + Don't distribute zlib.dll. Tweak some comments. + + * PCbuild/zlib.dsp: Now using static zlib 1.1.3 + + * Lib/dos-8x3/userdict.py, Lib/dos-8x3/userlist.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_zli.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_use.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_pop.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_pic.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_ntp.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_gzi.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_fcn.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_cpi.py, Lib/dos-8x3/test_bsd.py, Lib/dos-8x3/posixfil.py, Lib/dos-8x3/mimetype.py, Lib/dos-8x3/nturl2pa.py, Lib/dos-8x3/compilea.py, Lib/dos-8x3/exceptio.py, Lib/dos-8x3/basehttp.py: + The usual + + * Include/patchlevel.h: Release 1.5.2c1 + + * README: Release 1.5.2c1. + + * Misc/NEWS: News for the 1.5.2c1 release. * Lib/test/test_strftime.py: On Windows, we suddenly find, strftime() may return "" for an |