| Jack Jansen | 2f9a9e3 | 2001-02-17 22:03:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | Changes in 2.1a2 since 2.0 |
| Jack Jansen | 538bd13 | 2000-10-19 21:58:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | -------------------------- |
| Jack Jansen | ecbc1cc | 1998-01-06 12:13:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | |
| Jack Jansen | 26d7c14 | 2000-09-11 22:47:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 4 | These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder) |
| 5 | for machine-independent changes. |
| 6 | |
| Jack Jansen | e9e0d47 | 2000-09-10 12:17:31 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 7 | Unfortunately I have messed my administration up, so I can't give complete |
| 8 | Mac-specific release notes for the changes in this release. So, I will |
| 9 | have to leave it at the highlights: |
| Jack Jansen | ecbc1cc | 1998-01-06 12:13:16 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 10 | |
| Jack Jansen | 2f9a9e3 | 2001-02-17 22:03:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 11 | - The good news: this release is Carbon-based, so it runs natively on MacOS 8.6 or |
| 12 | later and MacOSX. |
| 13 | - The bad news: this release is Carbon-only. The next alpha release will be both |
| 14 | Carbon and classic PPC. |
| 15 | - Distutils is included and seems to work. |
| 16 | - There's a new module (package, actually) mkcwproject which builds CodeWarrior |
| 17 | projects from simple templates. See Distutils or :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py |
| 18 | for examples of use. |
| 19 | - Windows and Dialogs can now be different beasts, so you may have to call |
| 20 | dlg.GetDialogWindow() where you used to be able to call window methods straight |
| 21 | on the dialog. This also has consequences for code using FrameWork.DialogWindow. |
| 22 | THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 23 | - ctl.GetControlDataHandle() has been renamed to GetControlData_Handle(), and similarly |
| 24 | for the other variants of GetControlData and SetControlData. This was needed |
| 25 | because Carbon defines a completely different routine with the name GetControlDataHandle. |
| 26 | THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 27 | - Method mac.xstat() has disappeared. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 28 | - Menu.SetPopupData() and GetPopupData() are gone. Use SetPopupMenuHandle() and |
| 29 | SetPopupMenuID() (and the getters) in stead. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 30 | - Various methods have disappeared when running under Carbon. The script |
| 31 | :Mac:scripts:missingcarbonmethods.py can check your sources, but you need unix to run |
| 32 | it. Or use it as documentation and search by hand. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 33 | - The good news is that "direct access to toolbox structs" still works from Python, |
| 34 | so Python programmers have a lot less to fix than C programmers. |
| 35 | That's because the lowlevel code simply uses the accessors internally. The accessors |
| 36 | are available both in Carbon and Classic MacPython. |
| 37 | - Scrap under Carbon is, you guessed it, the Carbon Scrap Manager. Some workarounds are |
| 38 | provided, though. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 39 | - The Internet Config routines that are missing from Carbon have been removed. This |
| 40 | is no problem if you use the "ic" module, but may be if you use "icglue" directly. |
| 41 | THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 42 | - Various old toolbox names (CountMItems, EnableItem, etc) have disappeared. Use the |
| 43 | new forms (CountMenuItems, EnableMenuItem, etc). THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE. |
| 44 | - Waste now uses Waste 2.0. |
| 45 | - The default memory size for the interpreter has been upped again. |
| 46 | - The MacOS error messages have been updated to reflect the current state of |
| 47 | things. This was long overdue. |
| 48 | - The crash in BuildApplication has been fixed. |
| 49 | - struct.pack related problems (in Audio_Mac, for example) have been fixed. |
| 50 | - (src/dev/cvs only): The project files now use the .mcp extension in stead of .prj. |
| 51 | Projects for almost all plugins and the img modules are automatically generated |
| 52 | with :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py (also called by fullbuild). The .mcp files |
| 53 | are not in the repository, if you don't want to use genpluginprojects you can import |
| 54 | the .mcp.xml files in CodeWarrior. |
| Jack Jansen | 46e1302 | 2000-09-24 22:01:53 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 55 | |
| Jack Jansen | 26d7c14 | 2000-09-11 22:47:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 56 | |
| 57 | What is not in this distribution |
| 58 | -------------------------------- |
| 59 | |
| Jack Jansen | 2f9a9e3 | 2001-02-17 22:03:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 60 | - The garbage collection mods have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time. |
| Jack Jansen | 2d017ec | 2000-09-14 21:02:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | - Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available |
| Jack Jansen | de51909 | 2000-10-12 21:21:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage. |
| Jack Jansen | 26d7c14 | 2000-09-11 22:47:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 63 | |
| 64 | Known problems |
| 65 | -------------- |
| 66 | |
| 67 | This list is far from complete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage, |
| 68 | http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html. |
| 69 | |
| 70 | - The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter. |
| 71 | - Aliases do not work in sys.path entries. |
| Jack Jansen | 2f9a9e3 | 2001-02-17 22:03:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 72 | - The menu bar isn't always correctly restored before MacPython turns to <<terminated>>. |
| 73 | - Under Carbon only you may occasionally see a spurious KeyboardInterrupt. I have absolutely |
| 74 | no clue as to what is causing this. |