Files for second 2.1b1 distribution.
diff --git a/Mac/ReadMe b/Mac/ReadMe
index d4c9588..f95a940 100644
--- a/Mac/ReadMe
+++ b/Mac/ReadMe
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
You should definitely read the Relnotes file too.
+A special note about the active installer: do not background it, it will hang
+your machine.
+
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If this is your first encounter with Python: you definitely need the
@@ -169,7 +172,8 @@
Corran Webster, Tony Ingraldi, Erik van Blokland, Bill Bedford, Chris
Stern, Gordon Worley, Oliver Steele, M. Papillon, Steven Majewski, David
Goodger, Chris Barker, Luc Lefebvre, Tattoo Mabonzo K., Russell Finn,
-Tom Bridgman and all the other people who provided feedback, code or both!
+Tom Bridgman Russel Owen and all the other people who provided feedback,
+code or both!
MacPython includes waste, a TextEdit replacement which is (c) 1998 Marco Piovanelli.
diff --git a/Mac/Relnotes b/Mac/Relnotes
index 2e8ae22..374fa91 100644
--- a/Mac/Relnotes
+++ b/Mac/Relnotes
@@ -69,13 +69,16 @@
(PythonInterpreter). [*]
- PythonIDE used to burn CPU cycles when idle, this has been fixed. PythonInterpreter
still has the problem. [*]
+- A BBEdit language module by Chris Stern is included in the :Mac:Contrib folder. [*]
+- The ConfigurePython applets will now detect if the preference file refers to a different
+ folder than where they live. They offer to remove the preference file in this case. [*]
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 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available
+- 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.
Known problems
@@ -95,5 +98,9 @@
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.
-- Under MacOSX applets have to live in the Python folder, otherwise they cannot find
- PythonCore. This is being worked on.
+- Under MacOSX Public Beta ConfigurePython cannot put PythonCore in the global CFMSupport
+ folder. Therefore applets have to live in the Python folder, otherwise they cannot find
+ PythonCore. There is a workaround if you want to have an applet in a different folder:
+ put an alias PythonCoreCarbon (pointing to the PythonCoreCarbon in the Python folder)
+ in the same folder as your applet.
+ This problem should in all probability not occur in the release version of MacOSX.