From e5e8effecaf9f95c6a62f549790b799bb4be61cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:18:10 +0000 Subject: Add a note about the openssl dependency. Switch to '*' bullets for easier copying into the website. --- RELNOTES | 14 +++++++++----- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES index 74fc849..252c98e 100644 --- a/RELNOTES +++ b/RELNOTES @@ -8,19 +8,23 @@ Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/. Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007 ---------------------------------------- -- SSL support is disabled. This causes a test_ssl to be skipped. +* SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped. The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2. -- Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, +* If you don't have openssl, hashlib is non-functional, which + means there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some + modules. + +* Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, and Windows. -- There are still some open issues on Windows. +* There are still some open issues on Windows. -- Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new +* Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118). -- IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try +* IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try "idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the interpreter. -- cgit v0.12