Final tweaks for 2.2a3 distribution.
diff --git a/Mac/ReadMe b/Mac/ReadMe
index 5ff575b..dc9783c 100644
--- a/Mac/ReadMe
+++ b/Mac/ReadMe
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-How to install Python 2.2a2 on your Macintosh
+How to install Python 2.2a3 on your Macintosh
---------------------------------------------
This is a MacPython that can run on classic MacOS (from 8.1
@@ -12,9 +12,9 @@
your machine. This is a general problem with Vise active installers, MindVision
are working on it.
-Aside from the general new Python 2.2a2 listed in the general relnotes file
+Aside from the general new Python 2.2a3 listed in the general relnotes file
there is some other new machine-independent stuff in this release as well, as
-it was built from newer sources than unix/windows 2.2a2.
+it was built from newer sources than unix/windows 2.2a3.
------
If this is your first encounter with Python: you definitely need the
@@ -101,13 +101,11 @@
for reading MacPython will now accept either unix linefeeds (LF, '\n') or
Macintosh linefeeds (CR, '\r') and present both of them as '\n'. This is done on
a low level, so it works for files opened by scripts as well as for your scripts
-and modules itself.
+and modules itself. This can be turned off with a preference/startup option.
But:
- this works only for input, and there's no way to find out what the original
linefeed convention of the file was.
-- this is unconditional, so there's no way to turn it off, either on a file-by-file
- basis or globally (but opening binary files works as it always has, of course).
- Windows \r\n linefeeds are not supported and get turned into \n\n.
What to install
@@ -150,9 +148,14 @@
----------------
It is probably a good idea to run the automatic tests. Start
-Python and "import test.autotest".
+Python and "import test.regrtest ; test.regrtest.main()".
-Three tests will fail on MacOS9, all with MemoryErrors:
+test_time will fail because MacPython accepts bogus values for mktime(), this
+will be fixed later.
+
+test_descrtut will fail because of a problem with the test itself.
+
+Three tests will fail on MacOS9 with MemoryErrors:
test_longexp, test_sha and test_zlib (on MacOSX nothing should fail).
If you increase the PythonInterpreter memory
@@ -178,7 +181,7 @@
Two items are installed in the system folder: the interpreter shared
libraries PythonCore and PythonCoreCarbon lives in the Extensions folder and the
-"Python 2.2a2 Preferences" file in the Python subfolder in the
+"Python 2.2a3 Preferences" file in the Python subfolder in the
Preferences folder. All the rest of Python lives in the folder you
installed in.
@@ -227,9 +230,9 @@
whether to upgrade. The bad news is that your old preference settings
are lost and you have to set them again.
-After you are satisfied that 2.2a2 works as expected you can trash
+After you are satisfied that 2.2a3 works as expected you can trash
anything in the system folder that has "python" in the name and not
-"2.2a2".
+"2.2a3".
The ConfigurePython... applets will try to detect incompatible preferences
files and offer to remove them. This means that re-running ConfigurePython after
@@ -261,7 +264,8 @@
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, Russel Owen, Pascal Oberndoerfer, Dean Draayer
+Tom Bridgman, Russel Owen, Pascal Oberndoerfer, Dean Draayer,
+Alexandre Parenteau,
and all the other people who provided feedback, code or both!
MacPython includes waste, a TextEdit replacement which is (c) 1998 Marco Piovanelli.