Added notes about setup.py and cygwin build; removed note about
the previous auto-configuring modules feature (already obsolete :-).
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 67de2d5..e48add5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -226,11 +226,18 @@
Build issues
-- On Linux (and possibly other Unix platforms), the readline and
- _curses modules are automatically configured through
- Modules/Setup.config. These, and the bsddb module (which was
- already dynamically configured) are now built as shared libraries by
- default.
+- For Unix (and Unix-compatible) builds, configuration and building of
+ extension modules is now greatly automated. Rather than having to
+ edit the Modules/Setup file to indicate which modules should be
+ built and where their include files and libraries are, a
+ distutils-based setup.py script now takes care of building most
+ extension modules. All extension modules built this way are built
+ as shared libraries. Only a few modules that must be linked
+ statically are still listed in the Setup file; you won't need to
+ edit their configuration.
+
+- Python should now build out of the box on Cygwin. If it doesn't,
+ mail to Jason Tishler (jlt63 at users.sourceforge.net).
- Python now always uses its own (renamed) implementation of getopt()
-- there's too much variation among C library getopt()