From: "deckerben" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: ANNOUNCE: PythonD 2.2.1 Release 1.1 Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 03:23:57 +0100 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Lines: 58 Message-ID: <3e18e83f$0$8290$9b622d9e@news.freenet.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.6.64.108 X-Trace: 1041819712 news.freenet.de 8290 213.6.64.108:2384 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT freenet DOT de To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Greetings. PythonD 1.1 based on Python sources 2.2.1 has been uploaded to: http://members.lycos.co.uk/bdeck This is a bug-fix and minor-enhancement level release. Downloading is not neccessary but encouraged. PythonD is the DJGPP-based MSDOS port of Python. Fixes/enhancements include: Numberous token exports added for dynamically-linked modules. xslt module removed from pyxml; doesn't work under PythonD anyway (threading) (is also incompatible with Ft 12) libxml.py, libxsl.py, and libxml2.py removed from standard python library (they were accidentally left there from a previous pre-beta test). Python Include files now properly located in the "python2.2" subfolder. path configuration files (".pth") in $DJDIR/site-python are supported. Like %PYTHONPATH%, %PYTHONHOME% is also supported. It must point to the top of your binary tree(if "python2.2" library is found under C:\python\lib, set PYTHONHOME=c:/python). A rudimentary 'os.startfile' (normally on Win32) has been implemented. Only usable when PythonD is used during a running Windows95 (and newer) session. Requires presence of "rundll32.exe" in the Windows %PATH%. The "webbrowser" module has been modified for PythonD. A number of browsers are supported by default. May also use %BROWSER%. New experimental SSL support in Socketmodule. READLINE MODIFICATIONS (can be disabled by commenting out appropriate lines from site.py): A default "readline history file" has been implemented in $DJDIR/etc/_pythist.txt See site.py if you wish to change this setting. The default "command completion key" has been assigned to 'TAB'. There is also a pre-alpha port of "tkinter" included (the TK-Wish module), using a partially complete xlibemu port to GRX2. Don't get excited yet, it is still pretty broken, but is a glimse of possible things to come with the second major drop of PythonD 2.2.1. Ben