(currently only used for builds with <= 10.5 deployment targets)

Richard.

* Tulip issue 184: FlowControlMixin constructor now get the event loop if the
  loop parameter is not set. Add unit tests to ensure that constructor of
  StreamReader and StreamReaderProtocol classes get the event loop.
* Remove outdated TODO/XXX

* Document why set_result() calls are safe
* Cleanup gather(). Use public methods instead of hacks to consume the
  exception of a future.
* sock_connect(): pass directly the fd to _sock_connect_done instead of the
  socket.

Patch by A.M. Kuchling.

- clarified the distinction between text encodings and other codecs
- clarified relationship with builtin open and the io module
- consolidated documentation of error handlers into one section
- clarified type constraints of some behaviours
- added tests for some of the new statements in the docs

availability of the function is checked during the compilation. Patch written
by Bernard Spil.

ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv23 protocol by default, not ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3, for maximum
compatibility and support platforms where ssl.PROTOCOL_SSLv3 support is
disabled.

the waiter future before setting its result.

10.4 systems do not allow creation of files with such filenames.

Patch by Vajrasky Kok.

Patch by Dmitry Kazakov.