Hello, We have uploaded binary and source packages of PythonD 2.4.2 release 1.0 for DJGPP/MSDOS/Windows to the 'pythond' page at http://www.caddit.net. All PythonD users are encouraged to upgrade. There have been many enhancements, including:
Smaller & faster executable size. Long Filename TSR under DOS and NT 4 is now mandatory! $DJDIR/site_python is now searched as part of the default path (provides room for deeper packages under MSDOS 8-directory restriction. Socket module has been upgraded to Watt-32 2.8 without SSL support. An additional SSL (OpenSSL-based) library is provided separately. Better/more stable thread support (library recompile under better env) Limited-method release of the MS-specific 'msvcrt' module provides DOS-specific API: getch, getche, kbhit, putch, setmode, ungetch Some Watt-32 specific socket errnos have been corrected from the 2.2 release. The DB module has forked into 2 separate modules: bsddb (3.0+) and bsddb185. The DOS library has been recompiled based on sleepycat 3.17 release for both. Use of the 'bsddb' module (not 185) is prefered, although DBEnv will not work. Additional goodies (plenty!) have been provided under the lib/python2.4/site-packeges directory! Google if you don't know what they do. Dat's all folks! #!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#! The Python source itself has greatly improved. From Python website: We are pleased to announce the release of Python 2.4, final on November 30, 2004. This is a final, stable release, and we can recommend that Python users upgrade to this version. Note: there's a security fix for SimpleXMLRPCServer.py - this fix is included in 2.4.1 Python 2.4 is the result of almost 18 month's worth of work on top of Python 2.3 and represents another stage in the careful evolution of Python. New language features have been kept to a minimum, many bugs have been fixed and a variety of improvements have been made. Notable changes in Python 2.4 include improvements to the importing of modules, function decorators, generator expressions, a number of new modules (including subprocess, decimal and cookielib) and a host of bug fixes and other improvements. See the (subjective) highlights or the detailed release notes for more, or consult Andrew Kuchling's What's New In Python for a detailed view of some of the new features of Python 2.4. #!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#!#! PYTHOND is now on IRC! Go to #pythond on irc.freenode.net! Thanks Ben -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
