From: Fred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 00:30:05 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Update list of extension modules that may be interesting to enable on
X-Git-Tag: v2.0c1~216
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3cc7e4d083916a5171caae453c38d423baae1d91;p=python

Update list of extension modules that may be interesting to enable on
most modern Unix flavors.

The age of this portion of the README was noted in SourceForge bug #115625.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 4813b02fc2..dd86dfce29 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -459,11 +459,12 @@ next time you run make in the toplevel directory.  (When working
 inside the Modules directory, use "make Makefile; make".)
 
 The default collection of modules should build on any Unix system, but
-many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try dbm,
-nis, termios, timing, syslog, curses, new, soundex, parser).  Often
-the quickest way to determine whether a particular module works or not
-is to see if it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get
-compilation or link errors, disable it -- you're missing support.
+many optional modules should work on all modern Unices (e.g. try
+audioop, imageop, crypt, dbm, gdbm, nis, resource, termios, timing,
+syslog, _curses, pyexpat, readline, rgbimg, zlib).  Often the quickest
+way to determine whether a particular module works or not is to see if
+it will build: enable it in Setup, then if you get compilation or link
+errors, disable it -- you're missing support.
 
 On SGI IRIX, there are modules that interface to many SGI specific
 system libraries, e.g. the GL library and the audio hardware.