why not commit the bug list and ChangeLog
diff --git a/BUGS b/BUGS
index f999708..730fb94 100644
--- a/BUGS
+++ b/BUGS
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+*** See the ChangeLog file for bugs fixed since 1.2 BETA 2 ***
+
Sorry, this list does not claim completeness. If I fixed a bug
immediately upon receiving the first complaint I usually did not
nother to make an entry in this file, unless it was a serious bug
@@ -6,6 +8,7 @@
==> Status indicators: (-) not fixed; (*) fixed; (?) not sure.
======================================================================
+
Known BUGS in 1.2 BETA 1, fixed in 1.2 BETA 2
---------------------------------------------
@@ -18,13 +21,10 @@
(*) configure.in contains bogus name to check for inet library
-Known BUGS in 1.1.1 and 1.2 BETA 1
+Known BUGS in 1.1.1 and 1.2 BETA 3
----------------------------------
-(*) a file with unmatched triple quotes causes a loop in the scanner
-
-(-) still a memory leak in threads; bigger when thread.exit_thread()
-is used
+(-) still a memory leak in threads when thread.exit_thread() is used
Problems in 1.1.1 that are difficult to solve
---------------------------------------------
@@ -39,12 +39,6 @@
destroy them in reverse order??? really hopeless -- would have to
destroy objects in a module in reverse order too...]
-(-) [X]DECREF can cause the interpreter to be called recursively (for
-__del__ disciplines) -- so list and dict implementation calls doing
-DECREF can cause recursive calls to methods of the object being
-modified. Other files too. [Only partially fixed -- listobject.c is
-still suspect.]
-
(-) doneimport() should be called *before* the Py_AtExit code is
called [problem: what if other threads are still active?]
@@ -56,17 +50,12 @@
(-) arraymodule doesn't compile under Ultrix (FPROTO macro)
-(-) Linux uses GNU getopt by default which is broken
-
(-) makesetup assumes CCC is the C++ compiler -- not portable
(-) "make depend" assumes mkdep exists -- not portable
(-) regen calls h2py which isn't defined by default
-(-) make sharedinstall references to machdep directory but doesn't
-create it
-
(-) HP doesn't compile out of the box (needs LIBS=-ldld or
LIBS=/usr/lib/libdld.sl) [hard to test without a HP machine handy]
@@ -74,6 +63,18 @@
BUGS present in 1.1.1 and fixed in 1.2
--------------------------------------
+(*) Linux uses GNU getopt by default which is broken
+
+(*) make sharedinstall references to machdep directory but doesn't
+create it
+
+(*) a file with unmatched triple quotes causes a loop in the scanner
+
+(*) [X]DECREF can cause the interpreter to be called recursively (for
+__del__ disciplines) -- so list and dict implementation calls doing
+DECREF can cause recursive calls to methods of the object being
+modified. Other files too.
+
(*) if __getattr__ or __repr__ prints something, calling repr(x) from
cmd line forgets a newline