- separate the building of the core from the wrapper executables and the
external modules (.PYDs), based on the Py_BUILD_CORE define;
- clean up the generated import library definiton (.DEF file) to remove
references to a number of non-static symbols that aren't part of the
Python API and which shouldn't be exported by the core DLL;
- compile the release build with -fomit-frame-pointer, for a small
performance gain;
- make "make clean" remove byte compiled Python library files.
reorganise modules, so that most standard extensions are built into
the Python DLL. this slightly improves performance; reduces
fragmentation of address spaces and slightly reduces memory footprint.
- restructure build for modules now in Python DLL
README.os2emx
- clean out old cruft no longer appropriate now that EMX port builds
from CVS
- reflect move of modules into core DLL
- add section on building from source
- add new modules (zipimport, datetime, _random, bz2, _symtable)
- build pyexpat with expat sources from Python distribution
- regression test with and without compiled bytecode
- the security fixes to tempfile have lead to test_tempfile wanting
to create 100 temporary files. as the EMX default is only 40,
the number of file handles has been bumped (up to 250).
- changes to pgen have required restructuring its build support.
Andrew MacIntyre