From 6fa49e241854a67e0310d764039d3b9598e4befa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 17:31:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Prepping for 1.5.2a1 release... --- README | 68 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------ 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 59989558ed1..eac6bcb94f6 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,19 +1,12 @@ -This is Python release 1.5.1 -============================ - -This version is officially released on Tuesday, April 14, 1998. It is -mostly a bugfix release on Python 1.5. +This is Python release 1.5.2a1 +============================== What's new in this release? --------------------------- -See the Misc/NEWS file. Nothing spectacular this time, only small -changes (as you would expect from a release called "1.5.1"). - -One big organizational change: the documentation sources have been -unbundled. We will release a version of the Doc subtree separately, -but probably not simultaneously with the source release. +See the Misc/NEWS file. Nothing spectacular this time. The BeOS port +is now integrated, courtesy Chris Herborth (see below). If you don't read instructions @@ -258,11 +251,12 @@ QNX: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes: activate everything that makes sense for your system... tested here at QNX with the following modules: - array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath, crypt, curses, - errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop, _locale, math, md5, new, operator, - parser, pcre, posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor, - select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct, syslog, termios, - time, timing, zlib + array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath, + crypt, curses, errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop, + _locale, math, md5, new, operator, parser, pcre, + posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor, + select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct, + syslog, termios, time, timing, zlib Newly compiled/tested in 1.5.1: @@ -276,34 +270,38 @@ QNX: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes: 4) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash test - The socket test might fail in the test harness; going through it by - hand shows that they work. + The socket test might fail in the test harness; going + through it by hand shows that they work. - A good exercise for the reader: make this work "out of the box". - - Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I think that's - a problem with my readline 2.2 port. :-\ + A good exercise for the reader: make this work "out of the + box". + + Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I + think that's a problem with my readline 2.2 port. :-\ 5) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash install - If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but I've - only run small programs and the test cases), you're probably running - out of stack; the default 32k could be a little tight. To increase - the stack size, edit the Makefile in the Modules directory to read: - LDFLAGS = -N 48k + If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but + I've only run small programs and the test cases), you're + probably running out of stack; the default 32k could be a + little tight. To increase the stack size, edit the Makefile + in the Modules directory to read: LDFLAGS = -N 48k BeOS: Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes: See BeOS/README for notes about compiling/installing Python on - BeOS R3 or later. Note that only the PowerPC platform is supported - at this time, but feel free to try building it on x86. + BeOS R3 or later. Note that only the PowerPC platform is + supported at this time, but feel free to try building it on + x86. Cray T3E: Konrad Hinsen writes: - 1) Don't use gcc. It compiles Python/graminit.c into something that - the Cray assembler doesn't like. Cray's cc seems to work fine. - 2) Uncomment modules md5 (won't compile) and audioop (will crash - the interpreter during the test suite). - If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and binascii), - but these are not the modules you'd expect to need on a Cray. + 1) Don't use gcc. It compiles Python/graminit.c into something + that the Cray assembler doesn't like. Cray's cc seems to work + fine. + 2) Uncomment modules md5 (won't compile) and audioop (will + crash the interpreter during the test suite). + If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and + binascii), but these are not the modules you'd expect to need + on a Cray. SGI: SGI's standard "make" utility (/bin/make or /usr/bin/make) does not check whether a command actually changed the file it