add notes about subprocess module & thread stacks, SSL support
diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx
index c52a0eb..7c8a52d 100644
--- a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx
+++ b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx
@@ -330,6 +330,7 @@
ncurses HAVE_NCURSES
GNU gdbm HAVE_GDBM
libbz2 HAVE_BZ2
+ OpenSSL HAVE_OPENSSL
Please note that you need to check that what you have installed
is compatible with Python's build options. In particular, the
@@ -651,6 +652,22 @@
27. As of Python 2.4, the mpz, rotor and xreadlines modules have been
dropped from the Python source tree.
+28. The subprocess module was added to the standard library relatively
+late in the 2.4 development cycle. Unfortunately I haven't had the
+round tuits to adapt the module to the EMX environment yet, and
+test_subprocess has a number of failures as a result.
+
+29. The default stack size for threads has been 64k. This is proving
+insufficient for some codebases, such as Zope. The thread stack size
+still defaults to 64k, but this can now be increased by defining
+THREAD_STACK_SIZE to an appropriate value in the Makefile (which contains
+a commented out definition for 128kB thread stacks). I have seen
+references to heavy Zope/Plone usage requiring 1MB thread stacks on
+FreeBSD and Linux, but doubt that for most likely usage on OS/2 that
+more than 256kB is necessary. The size of the required stacks (main
+and thread) can vary significantly depending on which version of gcc
+is used along with the compiler optimisations selected.
+
... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-(
If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be
@@ -690,4 +707,4 @@
E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au
Web: http://www.andymac.org/
-3 October, 2004.
+17 February, 2005.