Other build and C API changes
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-Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
+Other changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
* The new :c:func:`Py_SetStandardStreamEncoding` pre-initialization API
allows applications embedding the CPython interpreter to reliably force
and core development team in this case, as Argument Clinic will not
be made available as a public API for third party use in Python 3.4.
+* New shell version of ``python-config``; can be used even when a python
+ interpreter is not available (for example, in cross compilation scenarios).
+
Other improvements
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* The unmaintained ``Misc/TextMate`` and ``Misc/vim`` directories have been
- removed (see the devguide__ for what to use instead).
+ removed (see the `devguide <http://docs.python.org/devguide>`_
+ for what to use instead).
+
+
+* OS/2 support code has been removed from the source tree and build tools
+ (:issue:`16135`).
-__ http://docs.python.org/devguide
+* Windows 2000 support code has been removed from the source tree and build
+ tools (changeset e52df05b496a).
Porting to Python 3.4
- Issue #15484: Fix _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE for srcdir != builddir builds;
use _PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE in distutils/sysconfig.py.
-- Drop support for Windows 2000.
+- Drop support for Windows 2000 (changeset e52df05b496a).
- Issue #17029: Let h2py search the multiarch system include directory.