[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.1a2 available

[Jack Jansen]

Folks,
the first alfa for MacPython 2.1 is available.
This is the first in what will probably be a series of about 3 or 4
alfas for this release, hopefully in quick succession. The reason for
this is Carbon support, which allows MacPython to run natively on
MacOSX. I'm planning to announce the alfas only here on pythonmac-sig, 
but feel free to forward the information to other people you think
could help debugging this.

So, the good news is that this release supports Carbon, which is
available on MacOS9 and MacOSX, and can be downloaded from the Apple
site for MacOS 8.1 and onwards (you want CarbonLib 1.0.4, that's good
enough for MacPython).
The bad news is that this alfa is Carbon-only, the next one will
include an optional Classic PPC interpreter again.

Please try this version and report your findings here to
pythonmac-sig, including the full version info of your OS and
MacPython (needed because I expect to release alfas often).

Things that are known not to work for this release:
- Tkinter is missing
- PIL and Numeric probably won't work
- Setting both "delay console window" and "keep console open" can let
  you end up without a menubar.
- Once in a while you get a spurious KeyboardInterrupt from nowhere.

Things that are known not to work on OSX for this release:
- The ConfigurePython script (run after the installer) fails, but this 
  isn't too much of a problem.
- Applets only work if they're in the Python folder. Does anyone know
  where shared libraries should be put on OSX to be found by all
  applications?
- EditPythonPrefs crashes. If anyone wants to investigate: please.
- The console window doesn't automatically scroll to the bottom until
  input is requested.
  
Download it from
http://www.cwi.nl/ftp/jack/python/mac/MacPython21a2carbon.bin
and give it a try,
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