[PYTHONMAC-SIG] Python 1.4beta3 for Macintosh released -- with Tkinter support!

[Guido van Rossum]

A port of Python 1.4beta3 for all Mac platforms is now available.  You
can get it via ftp from ftp.python.org, directory /pub/python/mac/.
Or point your web browser to:

	http://www.python.org/ftp/python/mac/

The directory contains complete, ready-to-install, binary
distributions for PowerPC Mac, 68K Mac, and 68K Mac using CFM68K
(shared library support).  There's also a full source distribution,
which contains a whole subtree of Mac-specific files that aren't in
the core distribution.

Note that both the PPC and the 68K binaries contain full support for
Tkinter.  You don't need to install Tcl/Tk in order to use this --
it's all statically linked (even the *.tcl scripts are there, in the
resource fork).  The CFM68K version doesn't support Tkinter yet -- it
appears to work but crashes as soon as you pop up or pull down a menu.

Thanks to Jack Jansen who did most of the work on this release, as
usual!

Here's a copy of the README file from that directory:

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Here you will find the 1.4 beta 3 distribution, available as binary
distributions for 68K, CFM68K and PPC and as source:
Python-14b3-68K.hqx		Full distribution for 68K, classic
				memory model. Interpreter includes
				img, waste and tkinter modules.
Python-14b3-small68kint.hqx	Small 68K interpreter only (also load
				the above distribution) without img,
				waste and tkinter, for people with
				little memory.
Python-14b3-CFM68K.hqx		Full distribution for 68K, CFM68K
				memory model (includes
				cfm68k). Useable if you have 68020 or
				higher and run System 7.1.1 or newer.
Python-14b3-PPC.hqx		Full distribution for PPC.
Python-14b3-src.hqx		Source distribution.

The libjpeg-v4.hqx, libpbmtiff.hqx and stdwin.hqx are versions of the
IJG jpeg library, the pbmplus and libtiff library and the stdwin
library, all preconfigured for building Python from source. It is
probably unwise to use this distributions for anything else.

	Jack Jansen, jack@cwi.nl, 28-Aug-96
	[updated by GvR, 28-Aug-96]
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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