and certainly not useful for any Windows build.

svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/tnelson-trunk-bsddb-47-upgrade

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  r64368 | trent.nelson | 2008-06-17 23:13:44 -0500 (Tue, 17 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Initial commit of work pertaining to switching the Windows build from Berkeley DB 4.4.20 to 4.7.25.  Note that I've deprecated the standalone '_bsddb44.vcproj' in lieu of adding the sources in a separate folder to the _bsddb project.  This was a conscious decision and actually makes everything far more easier to manage.  With this approach, entire test suite passed straight off the bat.  Well, almost -- the timeout in bsddb/test/test_replication.py needed bumping up a little -- 2 seconds was too short.  10 seconds seems to be fine for me, but I'll make sure Jesus verifies.  More documentation to come once I've been able to test out this approach on the buildbots (hence keeping the changes in a separate branch for now).
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  r64369 | trent.nelson | 2008-06-17 23:19:12 -0500 (Tue, 17 Jun 2008) | 1 line

  Bump Berkeley DB version from 4.4.20 to 4.7.25.
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Also remove references to odbc libraries, which are not shipped with vs2003 express.
(and certainly not useful)

if its UUID has lowercase letters.

Part of reverting most of r63675 per the mailing list discussion.

Renamed stringobject.c to bytesobject.c
Fixed Windows builds

Introduce a user macro named $(externalsDir), which should point to the root directory of where all the external sources should live.  Developers can change this value if their external sources live elsewhere.  The default of '..\..' matches the current status quo.

Merged r62778, r62779, r62802, r62806, r62807, r62808, r62809, r62844,
r62846, r62952, r62956.

Ippolito.

Closes issue #2750.

More Windows related fixes are coming soon

It was only used as a helper in types.py to access types (GetSetDescriptorType and MemberDescriptorType),
when they can easily be obtained with python code.
These expressions even work with Jython.

I don't know what the future of the types module is; (cf. discussion in http://bugs.python.org/issue1605 )
at least this change makes it simpler.

Don't run kill_python as part of the build process.  Change the buildbots so they have to call it explicitly instead.

Make kill_python a little more forgiving if it can't obtain a snapshot of module information for a given python[_d].exe process.  Failing here was too pessimistic; the python[_d].exe process may be owned by another user, which is the case in some buildbot environments.

Reimplement kill_python.  The existing version had a number of flaws, namely, it didn't work for x64 and it wasn't precise about which python_d.exe it was killing -- it just killed the first one it came across that happened to have 'pcbuild\python_d.exe' or 'build\python_d.exe' in it's path.  The new version has been rewritten from the ground up and now lives in PCbuild, instead of Tools\buildbot, and it has also been incorporated into the Visual Studio solution (pcbuild.sln) as 'kill_python'.  The solution has also been altered such that kill_python is called where necessary in the build process in order to prevent any linking errors due to open file locks.  In lieu of this, all of the existing bits and pieces in Tools\buildbot that called out to kill_python at various points have also been removed as they are now obsolete.  Tested on both Win32 and x64.

Change set (included to improve usefulness of svnmerge log entry):
M      PCbuild\pythoncore.vcproj
M      PCbuild\pcbuild.sln
M      PCbuild\release.vsprops
A      PCbuild\kill_python.vcproj
M      PCbuild\debug.vsprops
A      PCbuild\kill_python.c
D      Tools\buildbot\kill_python.bat
D      Tools\buildbot\kill_python.mak
M      Tools\buildbot\build.bat
D      Tools\buildbot\Makefile
M      Tools\buildbot\build-amd64.bat
M      Tools\buildbot\buildmsi.bat
D      Tools\buildbot\kill_python.c

Update information pertaining to building external components, as well as notes on x64 builds.  This file now accurately describes the build process as is; however, there's still a lot of room for improvement, especially with regards to how we build Tcl/Tk, Tix, and OpenSSL.  Watch this space for further improvements.

Merged revisions 61750,61752,61754,61756,61760,61763,61768,61772,61775,61805,61809,61812,61819,61917,61920,61930,61933-61934 via svnmerge from
svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/branches/trunk-bytearray

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  r61750 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 20:47:44 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Copied files from py3k w/o modifications
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  r61752 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 20:53:20 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 7 lines

  Take One
  * Added initialization code, warnings, flags etc. to the appropriate places
  * Added new buffer interface to string type
  * Modified tests
  * Modified Makefile.pre.in to compile the new files
  * Added bytesobject.c to Python.h
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  r61754 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:22:19 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled bytearray.extend for now since it causes an infinite recursion
  Fixed serveral unit tests
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  r61756 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:43:38 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 5 lines

  Added PyBytes support to several places:
  str + bytearray
  ord(bytearray)
  bytearray(str, encoding)
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  r61760 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 21:56:32 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed more unit tests related to type('') is not unicode
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  r61763 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 22:20:28 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Fixed more unit tests
  Fixed bytearray.extend
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  r61768 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 22:40:50 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Implemented old buffer interface for bytearray
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  r61772 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-22 23:24:52 +0100 (Sat, 22 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Added backport of the io module
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  r61775 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 03:50:49 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fix str assignement to bytearray. Assignment of a str of size 1 is interpreted as a single byte
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  r61805 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 19:33:48 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Fixed more tests
  Fixed bytearray() comparsion with unicode()
  Fixed iterator assignment of bytearray
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  r61809 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 21:02:21 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  str(bytesarray()) now returns the bytes and not the representation of the bytearray object
  Enabled and fixed more unit tests
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  r61812 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 21:53:08 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 3 lines

  Clear error PyNumber_AsSsize_t() fails
  Use CHARMASK for ob_svall access
  disabled a test with memoryview again
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  r61819 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-23 23:05:57 +0100 (Sun, 23 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Untested updates to the PCBuild directory
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  r61917 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 00:57:06 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  The type system of Python 2.6 has subtle differences to 3.0's. I've removed the Py_TPFLAGS_BASETYPE flags from bytearray for now. bytearray can't be subclasses until the issues with bytearray subclasses are fixed.
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  r61920 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 01:44:08 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 2 lines

  Disabled last failing test
  I don't understand what the test is testing and how it suppose to work. Ka-Ping, please check it out.
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  r61930 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 12:46:18 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Re-enabled bytes warning code
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  r61933 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:20:46 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Fixed a bug in the new buffer protocol. The buffer slots weren't copied into a subclass.
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  r61934 | christian.heimes | 2008-03-26 13:25:09 +0100 (Wed, 26 Mar 2008) | 1 line

  Re-enabled bytearray subclassing - all tests are passing.
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