Andrew M. Kuchling
ebe3045f3b
Update build notes to mention setup.py
2001-02-27 03:24:24 +00:00
Andrew M. Kuchling
9e9bb01cb4
Fix typo
2001-02-27 03:15:00 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
0e91dc7a6c
Add more information regarding the altinstall target.
2001-02-16 04:18:08 +00:00
Thomas Wouters
8ee06148f9
Rewrite AIX blurb to make clear threads are the default, and add note about
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setting the non-C++ compiler to a threadsafe one as well.
2001-02-15 11:45:29 +00:00
Fred Drake
dabed752ed
Added note about need for -traditional-cpp on the MacOS X Public Beta.
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This closes SF bug #129827 .
2001-02-01 19:41:13 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
73f8ab2e61
- Edit the QNX instructions to refer to Makefile, not Modules/Makefile.
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- Setup is now copied from Setup.dist by configure.
2001-01-26 22:18:55 +00:00
Neil Schemenauer
3f52da5b02
Update the build instructions for flat makefile.
2001-01-24 17:49:59 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
67345eb03f
Updated for 2.1; removed references to BeOpen.com and PythonLabs.
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Added Copyright GvR.
2001-01-18 14:51:12 +00:00
Martin v. Löwis
2df6694eff
Document --with-cxx.
2000-12-13 14:14:32 +00:00
Fred Drake
8007849048
Update build instructions to reflect the rename from Setup.in to Setup.dist.
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Clarify when this file is created automatically and do not advocate
creating it unless needed.
Explain that Setup never gets overwritten.
2000-10-26 17:13:19 +00:00
Fred Drake
6caae14fbd
Try to clarify when the Modules/Setup file should be edited. Added
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information about the --with-pydebug option to configure.
This closes bug #117070 .
2000-10-25 17:51:02 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
b675081dd0
the usual
2000-10-16 18:26:42 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
cc46bd2365
the usual
2000-10-09 21:34:51 +00:00
Fred Drake
36ed560710
Added section on threads problems on Reliant UNIX; this relates to
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bug #113797 . We should be able to resolve this for the next release.
Reflowed the comments on Monterey (64-bit AIX) to match the flow of the
other platform-specific sections.
2000-10-06 01:58:48 +00:00
Fred Drake
0b5fb2bfc8
Add a paragraph about an optimization bug in SGI compilers which affects
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complex objects, and explain how to build so that Objects/complexobject.c
is compiled without optimization.
Closing SourceForge bug #110695 as "Won't Fix".
2000-09-29 17:45:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
3cc7e4d083
Update list of extension modules that may be interesting to enable on
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most modern Unix flavors.
The age of this portion of the README was noted in SourceForge bug #115625 .
2000-09-29 00:30:05 +00:00
Fred Drake
8179a9de6b
Clarify that the Tk interface is not enabled by default when building
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from sources, not in general.
This closes SourceForge bug #115608 .
2000-09-28 23:28:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ba90909f2f
It's beta 2 now. Updated some stale URLs at pythonlabs.com.
2000-09-26 12:14:11 +00:00
Tim Peters
0344424793
Updated Windows build info.
2000-09-19 00:38:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7a12ef3479
Added BeOpen support plug.
2000-09-05 20:04:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4f40c2d49c
Many changes suggested by Bob Weiner, mostly small grammatical fixes
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or other clarifications, with the occasional plug for BeOpen
PythonLabs thrown in. Also added a trademarks disclaimer.
2000-09-05 16:46:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6ebd299cee
Remove a comma from CWI's copyright notice.
2000-09-03 04:47:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c07d5fadac
Ready to go.
2000-09-01 22:50:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7ac1153c01
Various tweaks and improvements by Thomas Wouters (who apparently lost
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the patch or forgot about it -- this is easier than reminding him).
2000-08-29 21:36:40 +00:00
Trent Mick
635f6fb0e9
This patch partly (some stuff went in already) ports Python to Monterey.
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- Fix bug in thread_pthread.h::PyThread_get_thread_ident() where
sizeof(pthread) < sizeof(long).
- Add 'configure' for:
- SIZEOF_PTHREAD is pthread_t can be included via <pthread.h>
- setting Monterey system name
- appropriate CC,LINKCC,LDSHARED,OPT, and CCSHARED for Monterey
- Add section in README for Monterey build
2000-08-23 21:33:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
81db1a31fa
Updated some URLs; removed mention of copyright (we'll have to add
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something in later after that discussion is over); remove explanation
of 2.0 version number.
2000-08-23 19:01:43 +00:00
Tim Peters
4f1b2081e9
Removed all instances of RETSIGTYPE from the source code: signal
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handlers "return void", according to ANSI C.
Removed the new Py_RETURN_FROM_SIGNAL_HANDLER macro.
Left RETSIGTYPE in the config stuff, because it's not clear to
me that others aren't relying on it (e.g., extension modules).
2000-07-23 21:18:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
973e4dcaff
Update a bunch of URLs. No longer suggests to join PSA or Consortium.
2000-07-01 00:34:39 +00:00
Jeremy Hylton
7efcafb994
add note about what happened to Python 1.6
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also, fix type (not caught by Rob Hooft, but could have been :-)
2000-06-30 17:30:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
901454e6cc
Tentative 2.0 and BeOpen upgrade.
2000-06-29 22:28:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9144763aae
Add weasel-words about versioning, so I don't have to check in a new
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README for each new alpha release.
2000-04-11 17:11:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d0a42e2d31
Quick update to the README file. For intros and books we now point to
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the website.
2000-03-31 20:16:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ed7f9e2425
Hint for C++ users on AIX by Gary Duzan added.
1999-11-16 16:03:03 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
592305011d
Add warning FreeBSD users of a problem with curses and termcap,
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submitted by Klaus-Juergen Wolf.
1999-06-21 20:51:46 +00:00
Fred Drake
0e6444c709
Added "Learning Python" to the books section.
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Updated comments on the documentation.
1999-05-17 19:35:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9e47859963
Prepare for final release.
1999-04-13 14:47:26 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
fe23ad7283
Add note about popen2 problem on Linux noticed by Pablo Bleyer.
1999-04-12 19:01:45 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
59a88f4ba7
Add note about -D_REENTRANT for HP-UX 10.20.
1999-04-12 18:16:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
31ae207708
Clarify PC build instructions (point to PCbuild).
1999-04-12 14:47:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e1cdb1620b
Add DEC Ultrix notes (from Donn Cave's email).
1999-04-10 16:04:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2aeba704d6
# File location for tut.tex and URL for Aaron Watters' tutorial have changed.
1999-04-08 20:42:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
42efa61f65
Release 1.5.2c1.
1999-04-08 20:23:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
126cbfa449
Updated for 1.5.2b2 release.
1999-02-18 16:04:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
583b019de4
Addition to previous note -- comfigure --without-gcc also works.
1999-01-11 16:47:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f5ade40375
Add note about gcc-2.8.1 setting sys.maxint to -1 on 64-bit IRIX.
1999-01-11 16:45:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d449342966
Optimistically, we label this as ready to go today.
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Also commit several improvements in the descriptions of the QNX and
BeOS port, both by Chris Herborth.
1998-12-22 16:37:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
de64eafbc9
Time for 1.5.2a2.
1998-10-17 19:44:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6fa49e2418
Prepping for 1.5.2a1 release...
1998-08-11 17:31:39 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ec95c7bd2b
Changes for BeOS, QNX and long long, by Chris Herborth.
1998-08-04 17:59:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0dd010a9e4
# Be more definite about the MIPSpro compiler bug being fixed in a
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# later release.
1998-06-30 16:58:58 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d92fb16d57
Oops, bug in release date!
1998-06-11 15:17:53 +00:00
Barry Warsaw
fe216b7937
A few minor updates on Emacs mode section
1998-05-29 20:56:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
2094e044c7
Add pointer to Misc/HPUX-NOTES.
1998-05-14 15:47:35 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dc8a3cb06d
Add Bill Janssen's notes on configuring threads.
1998-05-12 15:29:18 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a16e2753ed
The usual edits... Updated some stuff about the mailing list. Ready
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for 1.5.1 I'd say.
1998-04-13 20:14:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
462a5495fb
README ready for 1.5.1
1998-04-10 21:36:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0e13da904c
Add slightly more explicit warning about running "make clean" when
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changing the --with-thread option. I'm doubtful this will help
though...
1998-02-22 04:36:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
9ac9a26f08
Oh, well, various miscellaneous changes.
1998-02-16 22:19:21 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
efce03036e
Ready for release of 1.5.
1997-12-31 00:04:54 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
24df68493a
Refine note about strftime test failure (it's fixed in Linux glibc 6).
1997-12-30 04:32:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b1d368c00d
Tiny doc patch for QNS
1997-12-17 21:08:34 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
7980826d37
Prepared the README for 1.5b2.
1997-12-11 18:01:47 +00:00
Fred Drake
61280916f6
For RedHat Linux 5.0, added notes about needing to remove the LinuxThreads
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package, and -lcrypt for the crypt module.
1997-12-08 14:10:40 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b7f454d119
Add attributions to Jeffrey Ollie and Tim Peters for re.py; new QNX
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section from Chris Herborth.
1997-12-02 19:44:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8253671b6f
Dumb typo.
1997-11-26 21:20:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
66d010ab3c
Reordered and slightly edited the highlights of changes.
1997-11-26 17:37:31 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
647738002c
Revamped README for release of 1.5b1.
1997-11-26 17:07:02 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cbfcb17e96
AIX notes are simpler -- no need to enable sharedlibs with an edit.
1997-10-20 22:57:00 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
c0be2f5d56
Ready for the release, I'd say.
1997-10-08 05:05:28 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0078aaf950
Add warning about dumb SGI make.
1997-08-21 03:05:11 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1bf0bf40b4
Got rid of HP-UX comments (which seem to be out of date -- one should
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use -Ae).
Added Cray T3E comments.
1997-08-20 23:50:51 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
1fed5b3fbd
Another typo (importand).
1997-08-15 20:18:44 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
bda6fe6bb8
Final touch...
1997-08-15 20:09:56 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e7fe864c1e
Type ("thgis").
1997-08-15 18:51:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4952369e61
New, more complete list of what's new, pointing to Misc/NEWS for the
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whole list. Also changed all references to the FAQ to point to the
FAQ wizard.
1997-08-15 18:30:14 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
40d635848d
Added QNX remarks.
1997-08-14 19:45:30 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
b06df27843
--with-readline is obsolete (and some editorial stuff in README)
1997-08-05 21:50:20 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8d90f9d551
Minor edits for 1.5a2
1997-05-22 20:13:25 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6ae5d3dcdc
Update description of "make test" to new test harness.
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Change DEC OSF/1 to DEC Unix.
Add note about AIX bug in 4.2.1.
1997-05-14 21:39:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
33fde57300
1.5a1 adaptations.
1997-05-09 02:40:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
4462e93259
Various notes added:
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- -mt option for Solaris threads with Solaris compiler
- make clean when switching static link status for Linux
- DEC alpha --with-dec-threads option
- SunOS removed unnecessary warnings, mention -Xa for SunPro
- Setup.local file
- warn to try make clean after changing readline option
- mention --with-threads as alias for --with-thread
1997-01-22 21:00:32 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
f501b4e524
Ready for release. Added section on the book. Removed bugs/gripes emails.
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New copyright.
1996-10-25 14:32:48 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
cc55c2d295
Changes in description of NeXT options. Fixed reference to newsgroup
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(above instead of below).
1996-10-21 15:14:27 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
dfcf35dc59
Reformatted some stuff. Put FEATURE FREEZE in all caps.
1996-08-26 17:52:09 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d0fe8454dd
Updated for 1.4beta3
1996-08-26 03:02:37 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
6d9cc808a2
Final text for beta2 release. Hopefully no pre-1.4 information is left.
1996-08-01 17:31:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
d02ba45edc
Added doc para for --with-libs
1996-07-31 17:36:01 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8d7d4ede2c
Numerous changes, but still a lot of XXX thingies.
1996-07-30 21:41:07 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3ff96dd8f7
Various changes (not done yet even for beta2 release)
1996-07-30 18:05:04 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
a3b4b61a74
Added extra notes for AIX and SCO.
1996-07-21 02:48:16 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
faf681a154
Some cleanups. Change of address.
1996-06-20 14:32:08 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
8eca2c2c95
Added ref to Misc/NEWS file; added hint to run regen script on Linux.
1996-02-14 18:37:46 +00:00
Jack Jansen
10d0f8fc40
Renamed module tkinter to _tkinter
1995-10-23 14:36:05 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
0447a32bcc
release 1.3 for real
1995-10-08 01:22:33 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
ff84049b25
added psa plug
1995-09-18 22:02:47 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
84c8c7f9ee
1.3b1 notes
1995-08-28 02:44:24 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
3c294caa7a
add note about font-lock and fix doc URL
1995-06-14 18:17:22 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
91cb9d2fda
revamped README; the usual elsewhere...
1995-04-10 11:47:38 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
e109aa71f2
add warning about recompiling myreadline.o; add Tools/
1995-03-09 14:12:10 +00:00
Guido van Rossum
af07a44428
the usual
1995-02-13 19:45:27 +00:00