From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:18:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Add a note about the openssl dependency. Switch to '*' bullets for easier X-Git-Tag: v3.0a1~60 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5e8effecaf9f95c6a62f549790b799bb4be61cc;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git Add a note about the openssl dependency. Switch to '*' bullets for easier copying into the website. --- diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES index 74fc849b372f..252c98e8170f 100644 --- a/RELNOTES +++ b/RELNOTES @@ -8,19 +8,23 @@ Please report bugs to http://bugs.python.org/. Version 3.0a1 - Release Date 31-Aug-2007 ---------------------------------------- -- SSL support is disabled. This causes a test_ssl to be skipped. +* SSL support is disabled. This causes test_ssl to be skipped. The new SSL support in the 2.6 trunk (with server-side support and certificate verification) will be ported for 3.0a2. -- Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, +* If you don't have openssl, hashlib is non-functional, which + means there is no way to compute MD5 checksums. This breaks some + modules. + +* Platform support is reduced. We've mostly tested on Linux, OSX, and Windows. -- There are still some open issues on Windows. +* There are still some open issues on Windows. -- Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new +* Some new features are very fresh, and probably contain bugs: the new format() method on strings (PEP 3101), the strict separation of bytes and strings, the new buffer API (PEP 3118). -- IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try +* IDLE still has some open issues. If you can't run it at all, try "idle -n" which disables the separate subprocess for the interpreter.