From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 06:49:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: ROSCOS change.
X-Git-Tag: v2.1b1~17
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9089b2769ecf9b6825f204001d410830883f8e19;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

ROSCOS change.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6950ec19180c..d7eec13a87d4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -80,6 +80,14 @@ New platforms
 - 2.1 should compile and run out of the box on Cygwin.  Thanks to Jason
   Tishler!
 
+- 2.1 contains new files and patches for RISCOS, thanks to Dietmar
+  Schwertberger!  See RISCOS/README for more information -- it seems
+  that because of the bizarre filename conventions on RISCOS, no port
+  to that platform is easy.  Note that the new variable os.endsep is
+  silently supported in order to make life easier on this platform,
+  but we don't advertise it because it's not worth for most folks to
+  care about RISCOS portability.
+
 
 What's New in Python 2.1 alpha 2?
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