2001-02-17 18:03:42 -04:00
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Changes in 2.1a2 since 2.0
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2000-10-19 18:58:27 -03:00
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2000-05-06 20:01:07 -03:00
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2000-09-11 19:47:12 -03:00
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These release notes refer to Mac-specific changes only. See NEWS (in the Misc folder)
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for machine-independent changes.
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2000-09-10 09:17:31 -03:00
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Unfortunately I have messed my administration up, so I can't give complete
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Mac-specific release notes for the changes in this release. So, I will
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have to leave it at the highlights:
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1998-01-06 08:13:16 -04:00
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2001-02-17 18:03:42 -04:00
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- The good news: this release is Carbon-based, so it runs natively on MacOS 8.6 or
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later and MacOSX.
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- The bad news: this release is Carbon-only. The next alpha release will be both
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Carbon and classic PPC.
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- Distutils is included and seems to work.
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- There's a new module (package, actually) mkcwproject which builds CodeWarrior
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projects from simple templates. See Distutils or :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py
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for examples of use.
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- Windows and Dialogs can now be different beasts, so you may have to call
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dlg.GetDialogWindow() where you used to be able to call window methods straight
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on the dialog. This also has consequences for code using FrameWork.DialogWindow.
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THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- ctl.GetControlDataHandle() has been renamed to GetControlData_Handle(), and similarly
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for the other variants of GetControlData and SetControlData. This was needed
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because Carbon defines a completely different routine with the name GetControlDataHandle.
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THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- Method mac.xstat() has disappeared. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- Menu.SetPopupData() and GetPopupData() are gone. Use SetPopupMenuHandle() and
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SetPopupMenuID() (and the getters) in stead. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- Various methods have disappeared when running under Carbon. The script
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:Mac:scripts:missingcarbonmethods.py can check your sources, but you need unix to run
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it. Or use it as documentation and search by hand. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- The good news is that "direct access to toolbox structs" still works from Python,
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so Python programmers have a lot less to fix than C programmers.
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That's because the lowlevel code simply uses the accessors internally. The accessors
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are available both in Carbon and Classic MacPython.
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- Scrap under Carbon is, you guessed it, the Carbon Scrap Manager. Some workarounds are
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provided, though. THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- The Internet Config routines that are missing from Carbon have been removed. This
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is no problem if you use the "ic" module, but may be if you use "icglue" directly.
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THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- Various old toolbox names (CountMItems, EnableItem, etc) have disappeared. Use the
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new forms (CountMenuItems, EnableMenuItem, etc). THIS IS AN INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE.
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- Waste now uses Waste 2.0.
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- The default memory size for the interpreter has been upped again.
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- The MacOS error messages have been updated to reflect the current state of
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things. This was long overdue.
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- The crash in BuildApplication has been fixed.
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- struct.pack related problems (in Audio_Mac, for example) have been fixed.
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- (src/dev/cvs only): The project files now use the .mcp extension in stead of .prj.
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Projects for almost all plugins and the img modules are automatically generated
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with :Mac:scripts:genpluginprojects.py (also called by fullbuild). The .mcp files
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are not in the repository, if you don't want to use genpluginprojects you can import
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the .mcp.xml files in CodeWarrior.
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2000-09-24 19:01:53 -03:00
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2000-09-11 19:47:12 -03:00
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What is not in this distribution
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2001-02-17 18:03:42 -04:00
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- The garbage collection mods have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time.
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- Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available
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2000-10-12 18:21:43 -03:00
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Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage.
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2000-09-11 19:47:12 -03:00
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Known problems
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This list is far from complete, more problems may be listed on the MacPython homepage,
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http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.
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- The IDE and Tkinter do not work together. Run tkinter programs under PythonInterpreter.
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- Aliases do not work in sys.path entries.
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2001-02-17 18:03:42 -04:00
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- The menu bar isn't always correctly restored before MacPython turns to <<terminated>>.
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- Under Carbon only you may occasionally see a spurious KeyboardInterrupt. I have absolutely
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no clue as to what is causing this.
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