News about the new IDLE (is more needed?). News about SF patch

751998.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2ca8e9e2eb39b410824db078554a2e4d18b897f0..d99851d47afcae2c54a68aeaf1cd5aa53b2d24d8 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ What's New in Python 2.3 beta 2?
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- SF patch 751998 fixes an unwanted side effect of the previous fix
+  for SF bug 742860 (the next item).
+
 - SF bug 742860: "WeakKeyDictionary __delitem__ uses iterkeys".  This
   wasn't threadsafe, was very inefficient (expected time O(len(dict))
   instead of O(1)), and could raise a spurious RuntimeError if another
@@ -70,6 +73,10 @@ Extension modules
 Library
 -------
 
+- A brand new version of IDLE (from the IDLEfork project at
+  SourceForge) is now included as Lib/idlelib.  The old Tools/idle is
+  no more.
+
 - copy.py: applied SF patch 707900, fixing bug 702858, by Steven
   Taschuk.  Copying a new-style class that had a reference to itself
   didn't work.  (The same thing worked fine for old-style classes.)
@@ -100,6 +107,8 @@ Library
 Tools/Demos
 -----------
 
+- Tools/idle is gone; long live Lib/idlelib.
+
 - diff.py is a new script for print file diffs in context, unified, or ndiff
   formats.  Provides an alternate command line interface to difflib.py.