[Python-checkins] CVS: distutils README.txt,1.12,1.13 CHANGES.txt,1.8,1.9

[Greg Ward]

Update of /projects/cvsroot/distutils
In directory newcnri:/tmp/cvs-serv24429

Modified Files:
	README.txt CHANGES.txt 
Log Message:
Updated for release 0.8.1.

Index: README.txt
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/distutils/README.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.12
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -C2 -r1.12 -r1.13
*** README.txt	2000/04/14 00:52:10	1.12
--- README.txt	2000/04/22 02:46:11	1.13
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                              Python Distutils
!                               release 0.8
!                              April 11, 2000
  
  
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                              Python Distutils
!                              release 0.8.1
!                              April 21, 2000
  
  
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! Release 0.8 of the Distutils requires Python 1.5.2 or later.
  (Compatibility with Python 1.5.1 is forthcoming, as soon as I merge the
  1.5.1 compatibility changes from Distutils 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 forward.)
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! Release 0.8.1 of the Distutils requires Python 1.5.2 or later.
  (Compatibility with Python 1.5.1 is forthcoming, as soon as I merge the
  1.5.1 compatibility changes from Distutils 0.1.4 and 0.1.5 forward.)
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  The Distutils are included with Python 1.6, so there's generally no need
! to install it under Python 1.6.  In fact, Distutils 0.8 is exactly the
! code included with Python 1.6a2, so there's certainly no need to install
! it under Python 1.6a2.
! 
! However, while Python is progressing towards 1.6 final, and the
! Distutils are progressing towards 1.0, there's no guarantee that
! releases will proceed together -- sometimes, you'll want to upgrade the
! Distutils in your alpha/beta Python installation to the very latest.  To
! do this, you'll need to hide the original Distutils package directory
  from Python, so it will find the version you install.  For example,
  under a typical Unix installation, the "stock" Distutils directory is
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  The Distutils are included with Python 1.6, so there's generally no need
! to install it under Python 1.6.  However, Distutils 0.8.1 is more recent
! than the code included with Python 1.6a2, so if you really like life on
! the bleeding edge, you might want to install this Distutils release into 
! your Python 1.6a2 library.
! 
! To do this, you'll need to hide the original Distutils package directory
  from Python, so it will find the version you install.  For example,
  under a typical Unix installation, the "stock" Distutils directory is
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  There are a couple of small incompatibilities between Distutils 0.1.x
! and 0.8 that affect setup scripts.  Unfortunately, two of the major
  module distributions currently using the Distutils -- Numerical Python and
  PyXML -- stumble across these incompatibilities.  If you need to build
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  There are a couple of small incompatibilities between Distutils 0.1.x
! and 0.8.x that affect setup scripts.  Unfortunately, two of the major
  module distributions currently using the Distutils -- Numerical Python and
  PyXML -- stumble across these incompatibilities.  If you need to build
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  For example, if you want to build Numerical Python 15.2 using
! Distutils 0.8, you would:
  
    * rename the setup.py provided with Numerical Python 15.2, eg. to
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  For example, if you want to build Numerical Python 15.2 using
! Distutils 0.8.x, you would:
  
    * rename the setup.py provided with Numerical Python 15.2, eg. to
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  there are a few outstanding problems:
  
!   * Distutils 0.8 doesn't work with Python 1.5.1
    * not well tested with Python 1.6
    * problems with specifying relative directories in an installation
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  there are a few outstanding problems:
  
!   * Distutils 0.8.x doesn't yet work with Python 1.5.1
    * not well tested with Python 1.6
    * problems with specifying relative directories in an installation
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      the CPAN archive (Jarkko), and the CPAN module (Andreas)
  
! $Id: README.txt,v 1.12 2000/04/14 00:52:10 gward Exp $
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      the CPAN archive (Jarkko), and the CPAN module (Andreas)
  
! $Id: README.txt,v 1.13 2000/04/22 02:46:11 gward Exp $

Index: CHANGES.txt
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RCS file: /projects/cvsroot/distutils/CHANGES.txt,v
retrieving revision 1.8
retrieving revision 1.9
diff -C2 -r1.8 -r1.9
*** CHANGES.txt	2000/04/12 01:28:27	1.8
--- CHANGES.txt	2000/04/22 02:46:12	1.9
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+ Release 0.8.1 (21 April, 2000):
+ -------------------------------
+   * added the meta-data display options: now you can run the setup
+     script with --name, --author, --description, etc. and it will
+     print out that information (thanks to Bastian Kleineidam for
+     the original idea and patch)
+ 
+   * thoroughly overhauled the distutils.fancy_getopt module to support
+     those options
+ 
+   * manifest template files can now take many filename patterns per
+     line (thanks to Andrew Kuchling)
+ 
+   * code cleanup: better and more consistent use of exceptions
+ 
+   * building extensions should now work on AIX, thanks to a hack
+     that fixes "./ld_so_aix" in Python's installed Makefile
+ 
+   * fixed the "sample3" example to actually work (it hadn't been
+     updated with the Great Renaming prior to release 0.8)
+ 
+ 
  Release 0.8 (11 April, 2000):
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! $Id: CHANGES.txt,v 1.8 2000/04/12 01:28:27 gward Exp $
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! $Id: CHANGES.txt,v 1.9 2000/04/22 02:46:12 gward Exp $