From 1ec71ea48e344a556bf1ecfbe5d31913f48c091c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lemburg?= Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 20:33:40 +0000 Subject: Added note about new distutils commands. --- Misc/NEWS | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index 35d7248..bbaf2d9 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -87,6 +87,15 @@ Extension modules Library +- New distutils commands for building packagers were added to + support pkgtool on Solaris and swinstall on HP-UX. + +- distutils now has a new abstract binary packager base class + command/bdist_packager, which simplifies writing packagers. + This will hopefully provide the missing bits to encourage + people to submit more packagers, e.g. for Debian, FreeBSD + and other systems. + - The UTF-16, -LE and -BE now raise a NotImplementedError for all calls to .readline(). Previously, they used to just produce garbage or fail with an encoding error -- UTF-16 is -- cgit v0.12