Started on release notes and readme for 2.2a2.

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Changes in 2.1.1 since 2.1
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Changes in 2.2a2 since 2.1.1
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These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
for machine-independent changes.
for machine-independent changes. But note that more things may have changed: MacPython
2.2a2 is built from newer sources than unix/windows 2.2a2 (for CVS users: the r22a2-mac
tag is what you are looking for).
- Handling non-ascii characters in sys.path on non-MacRoman systems should be fixed,
iff MacPython has a codec for the charset. Otherwise you should get an error, at least.
Pathnames in sys.path also retain their original case again.
- IDE could crash on corrupt preferences. Fixed.
- IDE will now work if you use either pre or sre as re.
- Evt.WaitNextEvent could give an error when bit 15 was set, which could cause a problem
with IDE in classic mode. Fixed.
- MacOS8.X users in classic mode had problems with Fm not loading, which also caused
IDE not working. Fixed.
- Fm.IsAntiAliasedTextEnabled and Fm.SetAntiAliasedTextEnabled have gone for now, to
fix the problem above.
- Disabled the Tkinter file I/O event handler, which was there but didn't work anyway.
- Problems with loading dynamic modules that are part of a package into BuildApplication-
generated programs were fixed.
- The order of the EasyDialogs yes/no/cancel buttons has been conformed to the Mac
standard.
- Handling of Dialogs and Windows that were not created by Python is a bit more graceful
now, which may fix some crashes.
- Ctl.SendControlMessage has gone. But it didn't work anyway.
- Various problems with the TextEdit and Waste demos have been fixed.
- Embedding/extending only: in preparation to allowing the use of MacPython modules in
unix-Python on OSX the xxx_New and xxx_Convert routines are now optionally vectored via
glue routines in macglue.c. The only change that may be needed for embedders/extenders is
that you may want to include pymactoolbox.h in your sources.
- Embedding/extending only: Most MacPython source is now much more Mach-O friendly, and
should work with Universal Headers 3.4.
- Experimental: an Mlte module has been added, an interface to the Multi Lingual Text
Engine. There is a minimal example in :Mac:Demos:mlte.
- Experimental: some support for FSRef objects has been added. You can do little more that
convert them to/from FSSpecs. Carbon only.
- Experimental: the CF module has some support for CoreFoundation types. CFString
and CFURL work, to a degree, and can be converted to/from Python strings and Unicode
objects. Carbon only.
- The main change is that all toolbox modules have moved to a package called Carbon.
So things like "import Res" should be changed to "from Carbon import Res", and
"from Res import *" to "from Carbon.Res import *". Please see the readme file for
some open questions and join the discussions on pythonmac-sig if you have anything
to contribute. Aside from reducing clutter this change will also benefit the
port to Mach-O/OSX Python later.
- On input MacPython now accepts either \n (unix style) or \r (mac style) newlines
for text files. This is an experimental feature; again: feedback is requested.
- There is a new module macresource which makes it easier to open a resource file
accompanying your script when the script is not (yet) converted to an applet.
This module will later also do the right thing in Mach-O/OSX Python.
- Threads had a stack that was too small for many serious Python applications (20K).
They now get 64K. There is still no overflow check, though.
- Garbage collection and the gc module have (finally) been enabled.
- EasyDialogs.ProgressBar now has indeterminate progressbars if you specify maxval=0.
This is also the new default. Patch supplied by Dean Draayer.
- Various outdated scripts have been moved to :Mac:Unsupported.
- Various outdated items from :Mac:Lib:test have been removed.
What is not in this distribution
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- The garbage collection mods have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time.
- Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.1 yet. If/when it becomes available
- Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.2 yet. If/when it becomes available
Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage.
- The toolbox modules have not been updated to Universal Header 3.4 or CarbonLib 1.4 yet.
Known problems
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This list is probably incomplete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage,
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.
- MacPython 2.1.1 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X
- MacPython 2.2a2 (and MacPython 2.1) will not run correctly on a multiprocessor MacOS X
machine, it will quickly deadlock during I/O operations. The GUSI I/O library is suspected,
hints/clues/workarounds are solicited.
- Tkinter does not work under Carbon.