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Thanks go to the whole Python community with Guido in the lead, of course.
-Mac-specific thanks go to the pythonmac-sig, Just van Rossum, Corran Webster,
+Mac-specific thanks go to the pythonmac-sig, Just van Rossum, Corran Webster, Tony Ingraldi,
Erik van Blokland, Bill Bedford, Chris Stern, Gordon Worley, Oliver Steele, M. Papillon,
-Steven Majewski and all the other people who provided feedback, code or both!
+Steven Majewski, David Goodger, Chris Barker and all the other people who provided feedback,
+code or both!
Feedback
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Changes in 2.0b1 since 1.5.2
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+These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
+for machine-independent changes.
+
Unfortunately I have messed my administration up, so I can't give complete
Mac-specific release notes for the changes in this release. So, I will
have to leave it at the highlights:
- 68K support has been dropped, this release is PPC only.
- Threads support (through standard Python threads module).
+- Tkinter works again! At least: it doesn't immedeately crash in obvious ways.
- Appearance support through App module and added calls in many other modules.
+ Most dialogs and applets have also been converted to Appearance. There's also a
+ ControlAccessor module that handles [GS]etControlData with their plethora of
+ argument types.
- Navigation Services support, with macfs StandardFile calls transparently
replaced by their NavServices counterparts.
-- Offscreen QuickDraw support through Qdoffs module.
+- Offscreen QuickDraw and GWorld support through Qdoffs module.
- Drag manager support (Drag module).
-- Much better CGI support, see :Mac:Tools:CGI.
+- Much better CGI support and examples, see :Mac:Tools:CGI.
- Better OSA/AppleEvent support.
+- Up/downcasting of handle-based types is now unified and implemented in the
+ inherting module, e.g.
+ handleobj = ctlobj.as_Resource()
+ ctlobj = Ctl.as_Control(handle)
+- Added macos.FreeMem(), MaxBlock() and CompactMem(), mainly so apps in Python can
+ give low-memory warnings.
+- MediaDescr module parses some QuickTime media descriptions (but definitely not all).
+
+What is not in this distribution
+--------------------------------
+
+- The garbage collection mods to 2.0 have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time.
+- Stackless Python/microthreads are not in here. Ask on the pythonmac-SIG if you want them.
+- Carbon support is not in here, but should be happening as soon as GUSI is ready.
+- Distutils is not in here, again due to lack of time.
+
+Known problems
+--------------
+
+This list is far from complete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage,
+http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.
+
+- The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter.
+- Aliases do not work in sys.path entries.
resource 'STR#' (PYTHONPATH_ID, "sys.path initialization") {
{
"$(PYTHON)",
- "$(PYTHON):Lib",
"$(PYTHON):Mac:PlugIns",
"$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib",
"$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib:lib-toolbox",
- "$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib:lib-scripting",
+ "$(PYTHON):Mac:Lib:lib-scriptpackages",
+ "$(PYTHON):Lib",
"$(PYTHON):Extensions:img:Mac",
"$(PYTHON):Extensions:img:Lib",
"$(PYTHON):Extensions:Numerical:Lib",
- "$(PYTHON):Lib:lib-tk"
+ "$(PYTHON):Extensions:Imaging:PIL",
+ "$(PYTHON):Lib:lib-tk",
+ "$(PYTHON):Lib:site-packages",
}
};
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