Changeset 388 for python/vendor/current/README

Timestamp:

Mar 19, 2014, 11:11:30 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

dmik

Message:

python: Update vendor to 2.7.6.

File:

• python/vendor/current/README (modified) (14 diffs)

python/vendor/current/README

@@ -1 @@
-This is Python version 2.6.5
+This is Python version 2.7.6
 ============================
 
-Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
-Python Software Foundation.
-All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011,
+2012, 2013 Python Software Foundation.  All rights reserved.
 
 Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
@@ -91 +90 @@
 formatting requirements.
 
+If you would like to contribute to the development of Python, relevant
+documentation is available at:
+
+    http://docs.python.org/devguide/
+
+For information about building Python's documentation, refer to Doc/README.txt.
+
 
 Web sites
@@ -97 +103 @@
 New Python releases and related technologies are published at
 http://www.python.org/.  Come visit us!
-
-There's also a Python community web site at
-http://starship.python.net/.
 
 
@@ -167 +170 @@
 To build Python, you normally type "make" in the toplevel directory.
 If you have changed the configuration, the Makefile may have to be
-rebuilt.  In this case you may have to run make again to correctly
+rebuilt.  In this case, you may have to run make again to correctly
 build your desired target.  The interpreter executable is built in the
 top level directory.
@@ -229 +232 @@
 -------------------
 
-A number of features are not supported in Python 2.5 anymore. Some
-support code is still present, but will be removed in Python 2.6. 
+A number of systems are not supported in Python 2.7 anymore. Some
+support code is still present, but will be removed in later versions.
 If you still need to use current Python versions on these systems,
 please send a message to python-dev@python.org indicating that you
@@ -246 +249 @@
 - Irix 4 and --with-sgi-dl
 - Linux 1
-- Systems defining __d6_pthread_create (configure.in)
+- Systems defining __d6_pthread_create (configure.ac)
 - Systems defining PY_PTHREAD_D4, PY_PTHREAD_D6,
   or PY_PTHREAD_D7 in thread_pthread.h
@@ -252 +255 @@
 - Systems using --without-universal-newlines
 - MacOS 9
-
-The following systems are still supported in Python 2.5, but
-support will be dropped in 2.6:
 - Systems using --with-wctype-functions
 - Win9x, WinME
 
-Warning on install in Windows 98 and Windows Me
------------------------------------------------
-
-Following Microsoft's closing of Extended Support for
-Windows 98/ME (July 11, 2006), Python 2.6 will stop
-supporting these platforms. Python development and
-maintainability becomes easier (and more reliable) when
-platform specific code targeting OSes with few users
-and no dedicated expert developers is taken out. The
-vendor also warns that the OS versions listed above
-"can expose customers to security risks" and recommends
-upgrade.
 
 Platform specific notes
@@ -550 +538 @@
         and type NMAKE.  Threading and sockets are supported by default
         in the resulting binaries of PYTHON15.DLL and PYTHON.EXE.
-
-Monterey (64-bit AIX): The current Monterey C compiler (Visual Age)
-        uses the OBJECT_MODE={32|64} environment variable to set the
-        compilation mode to either 32-bit or 64-bit (32-bit mode is
-        the default).  Presumably you want 64-bit compilation mode for
-        this 64-bit OS.  As a result you must first set OBJECT_MODE=64
-        in your environment before configuring (./configure) or
-        building (make) Python on Monterey.
 
 Reliant UNIX: The thread support does not compile on Reliant UNIX, and
@@ -708 +688 @@
 collected by Bill Janssen.  We would love to automate this process
 more, but the information below is not enough to write a patch for the
-configure.in file, so manual intervention is required.  If you patch
-the configure.in file and are confident that the patch works, please
+configure.ac file, so manual intervention is required.  If you patch
+the configure.ac file and are confident that the patch works, please
 send in the patch.  (Don't bother patching the configure script itself
--- it is regenerated each time the configure.in file changes.)
+-- it is regenerated each time the configure.ac file changes.)
 
 Compiler switches for threads
@@ -881 +861 @@
 ignore this, or upgrade to glibc version 6.
 
+By default, tests are prevented from overusing resources like disk space and
+memory.  To enable these tests, run "make testall".
+
 IMPORTANT: If the tests fail and you decide to mail a bug report,
 *don't* include the output of "make test".  It is useless.  Run the
 failing test manually, as follows:
 
-        ./python ./Lib/test/test_whatever.py
+        ./python Lib/test/regrtest.py -v test_whatever
 
 (substituting the top of the source tree for '.' if you built in a
@@ -940 +923 @@
 using the same installation prefix (--prefix argument to the configure
 script) you must take care that your primary python executable is not
-overwritten by the installation of a different versio.  All files and
+overwritten by the installation of a different version.  All files and
 directories installed using "make altinstall" contain the major and minor
 version and can thus live side-by-side.  "make install" also creates
@@ -1084 +1067 @@
         library installed on the system.
 
+--with-dbmliborder=db1:db2:...:  Specify the order that backends for the
+        dbm extension are checked. Valid value is a colon separated string
+        with the backend names `ndbm', `gdbm' and `bdb'.
 
 Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature)
@@ -1168 +1154 @@
 
 There's an excellent Emacs editing mode for Python code; see the file
-Misc/python-mode.el.  Originally written by the famous Tim Peters, it
-is now maintained by the equally famous Barry Warsaw (it's no
-coincidence that they now both work on the same team).  The latest
-version, along with various other contributed Python-related Emacs
-goodies, is online at http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode/.  And
-if you are planning to edit the Python C code, please pick up the
-latest version of CC Mode http://www.python.org/emacs/cc-mode/; it
-contains a "python" style used throughout most of the Python C source
-files.  (Newer versions of Emacs or XEmacs may already come with the
-latest version of python-mode.)
+Misc/python-mode.el.  Originally written by the famous Tim Peters, it is now
+maintained by the equally famous Barry Warsaw.  The latest version, along with
+various other contributed Python-related Emacs goodies, is online at
+http://launchpad.net/python-mode/.
 
 
@@ -1229 +1209 @@
 pyconfig.h.in   Source from which pyconfig.h is created (GNU autoheader output)
 configure       Configuration shell script (GNU autoconf output)
-configure.in    Configuration specification (input for GNU autoconf)
+configure.ac    Configuration specification (input for GNU autoconf)
 install-sh      Shell script used to install files
 setup.py        Python script used to build extension modules