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@@ -1,3 +1,172 @@ +====================================================================== +Things to do before releasing Pyton 1.4 the final cut: + +Win/NT specific things: + +... get bsddb.c patch + +... pyc files remain open when imported??? + +(*) no trailing separator on sys.path[0] please + +... no control-c or control-break in Windows Console mode??? + (implement Mark's hacks) + +... add PC template for extensions, + instructions + +... segv on NT after ^Z after import _tkinter + +Bugs: + +... apply(<class>, (), {}) fails while apply(<class>, ()) succeeds + +... exception in __del__ when __builtins__ has been deleted + +(*) core dump on complex % or divmod + +Features: + +... simple threading support (with lock) for Tk + +... Create and distribute the generic Makefile.pre.in for outside extensions. + +Documentation: + +... Add section on filesystem interface to tutorial + +... New last chapter of tutorial explaining new things (use NEWS file) + +... Update tutorial for changes in the language & library + +... Update reference manual for complex, power, slice and ellipses + +... New sections for library reference manual (use NEWS file for hints) + +... Update Misc/FAQ + +... Update README for 1.4 final cut + +... Update documentation for httplib + +... add stuff to ext.tex about threads and embedded Python + +... mention that -2147483648 doesn't work + +... mention that 0e0 and 01.0 etc. don't work + +Maybe not (yet): + +... SyntaxErrors w/o line numbers + +... get rid of 'owner' passed around for newframeobject and evalcode + +... Get freeze working for NT? (Sam has one) + +... rename init<module> to PyInit_<module>. + +... import ni seems to interpret the current directory as a package. + +... math.sqrt(1j) should raise TypeError!!! (To fix in getargs 'd' format.) + +... add make target that does machdep install; use in "machdepinstall" + +... prototype for PyOS_CheckStack() somewhere + +... On some Linuxes, ``python -c "print 12" | wc'' produces no output??? + +... Add INSTALL_ROOT variable to Makefile.in + +... More thread testing (Solaris?), wait for David Arnold + +... More NeXT patches (Bill Bumgarner) + +... Get rid of more modules: (stdwin, soundex, SGI specific?) + +... Use autoconf features to find X11 libraries + +... Use more modern autoconf features (e.g. for platform testing) + +Done: + +(*) fix file upload in cgi.py from Netscape + +(*) Tkinter.Variable.__del__ may cause (ignored) exceptions + +(*) Test for -lreadline *without* -lterm{cap,lib} + +(*) autotest fails on NT due to 1e-005 instead of 1e-05 + +(*) Update 1.3 version number and date occurring in tutorial, Misc/FAQ, + Doc/texipre.dat, Doc/boilerplate.tex, Doc/tut.tex example + +(*) Fix the freeze script + +(*) merge Fred's changes to formatter.py and other stuff in Grail/pythonlib + +(*) urllib.py: open_http() has bogosity when proxy and auth used together + +(*) Update Misc/NEWS + +(*) Get rid of obsolete modules: objc, environment + +(*) Try threads on NT? + +(*) get rid of remains of access.c + +(*) document the fact that __del__ exceptions get lost + +(*) print warning when __del__ raises exception (no SystemExit though) + +(*) document all new features of string.py and regsub.py + +(*) add delitem, delslice to operator.c + +(*) get rid of 'or', 'and' in operator.c (or rename to 'or_', 'and_') + +(*) Pass LDFLAGS from configure to Makefile? + +(*) -L option for -lreadline comes too late + +(*) halfbinop PROTO(...) triggers error on Alpha compiler? + +(*) operator.c is not K&R C nor is it ANSI C + +(*) some complex numbers code is not K&R + +(*) More AIX sharedlibs patches (Manus Hand, Vlad) + + Delete Modules/bindit + Add Modules/python.ext + +(*) #undef for fabs in mathmodule.c from Jack + +(*) Fix _tkinter.c for use on NT + +(*) Remove AIX shared libraries in make clean target + Remove *.sl in "make clean" targets + +(*) Sjoerd's optimizations + +(*) remove access stmt from docs + +(*) Lance's patches for SCO + +(*) Jim H's patch to fix power + +(*) rip out all traces of 'access' + +(*) New extref.tex from Richard Jones + +(*) ref.man patch by Anthony Baxter for lambda scope + +(*) Add extensions reference to ext.tex + +(*) generic/regen is bogus + +====================================================================== +====================================================================== +The following is old and I haven't checked whether it still applies: + (-) many module should export their symbolic constants instead of relying on a module written in Python |