| Changes in 2.1.1 since 2.1 |
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| These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) |
| for machine-independent changes. |
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| - 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. |
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| 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 |
| Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage. |
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| 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 |
| 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. |
| - The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter. |
| - Tkinter file events do not work, unless you have opened the file through Tcl (but then |
| you cannot access it from Python). |
| - Aliases may not work in sys.path entries. |
| - Under Carbon on OS9 only you may occasionally see a spurious KeyboardInterrupt. I have absolutely |
| no clue as to what is causing this. |
| - PythonInterpreter used interactively will eat a lot of processor cycles. You should use |
| PythonIDE for interactive work and PythonInterpreter for scripts only. This is especially |
| true under OSX. |
| - AliasMenu 2.2 conflicts with the Carbon version of Python. This is most likely a problem |
| with AliasMenu (which is from 1999, and thus predates Carbon altogether). |