Mail Archives: cygwin-announce/2002/06/25/15:00:49
New News:
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I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.1-1. The tarballs should be
available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly.
This package supports threads! Many thanks to Rob Collins (and others)
who enhanced Cygwin's pthreads support to the level needed by Python.
The _socket module is still being built static instead of shared to
workaround a fork() issue with DLL base address conflicts. See the
README for more details.
Old News:
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language. If interested, see the Python web site for more details:
http://www.python.org/
Please read the README file:
/usr/doc/Cygwin/python-2.2.1.README
since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc.
To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your
system. Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.
Note that we have recently stopped downloads from sources.redhat.com
(aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations. This means that you will
need to find a mirror which has this update.
In the US,
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
is a reliable high bandwidth connection.
In Germany,
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/
is usually pretty good.
In the UK,
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/
is usually up-to-date within 48 hours.
If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package
then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another
mirror.
The setup.exe program will figure out what needs to be updated on your
system and will install newer packages automatically.
If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . I would appreciate if you would
use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes
ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general.
If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list
is the appropriate place.
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