which is really important. This is a stopgap measure, as only the generated
C code is adapted. Fixes #776533.

LocaleTime instance to only be created once and thus not be recreated when
the locale changed.

Our saved locale was not being freed.  Also check correct variable for
NULL.

caught when executing test_strptime, test_logging, and test_time in that order
when the testing of "%c" occured.  Suspect the cache was not being recreated
(the test passed when test_logging was forced to re-establish the locale).

during the day tomorrow, so doing it earlier than I'd like.

This makes test_coercion pass on Panther.

Also added a note to NEWS that pythonw works again (it was broken in rc1).

   by patch 769142.  Fixed by patch 776062. KBK will backport net result
   to IDLE release22-maint and IDLEfork.
2. Update NEWS.txt and idlever for release.

Closes SF bug #776181.  Should be backported.

problems than it solves. In stead, put a warning near the top of the
welcome message. Fixes (or, rather works around) bug #764975.

to the name change of Python.app/Contents/MacOS/python to
Python.app/Contents/MacOS/Python. Fixes #776116.

all I know, the original locale may be '' (I don't think that's possible,
but ...), and if so we would certainly want to restore it.

Obtain the original locale in the documented way.  This way actually
works for me.

Restore the original locale at the end, instead of forcing to "C".

Move the locale fiddling into the test driver instead of doing it as a
side effect of merely importing the module.  I don't know why the test
is mucking with locale (and also added a comment saying so), but it
surely has no justification for doing that as an import side-effect.
Now whenever the locale-changing code executes, the locale-restoring code
will also get run.

This patch just adds test_ioctl to the list of expected skips for Cygwin.

arbitrary bytes before the actual zip compatible archive.  Zipfiles
containing comments at the end of the file are still not supported.

Add a testcase to test_zipimport, and update NEWS.

This closes sf #775637 and sf #669036.

Cygwin's pthread_sigmask() implementation appears to be buggy. This
patch works around this problem by using sigprocmask() instead.

This patch is implemented in a general way so it could be used by other
platforms too. If this approach is deemed too risky, then I can work up
a patch that just hacks Python/thread_pthread.h for Cygwin.

Note that I tested this patch against 2.3c1 under Red Hat Linux 8.0 too.

[snip]
And finally, I need someone to regenerate pyconfig.h.in and configure
with the same versions of the autotools that are normally used by
Python.

Neal kindly regenerated pyconfig.h.in and configure for me.

fixed. It also attempts to force boot-disk-only installs, but this seems to
lead to a problem that you have to deselect and reselect the installation disk.
If no-one comes up with a fix RSN I'll revert to the previous situation and
explain in the readme that you cannot install on a non-system-disk.

are satisfied in a case-insensitive manner, the attempt to import (the
non-existent) fcntl gets satisfied by FCNTL.py instead, and the tempfile
module defines a Unix-specific _set_cloexec() function in that case.  As
a result, temp files can't be created then (blows up with an AttributeError
trying to reference fcntl.fcntl).  This just popped up in the spambayes
project, where there is no apparent workaround (which is why I'm pushing
this in now).

Part of SF patch #773007.

Also fixed a number of mostly cosmetic markup errors.

Part of SF patch #773007.

Part of SF patch #773007.

Part of SF patch #773007.

may cause some tests to fail but it prevents them from hanging.

This lead to a duplication of error messages (and installs). Fixes #764615.

happen while parsing a plistfile feeding an ill-formatted file to
pimp may cause an exception. As a stopgap we use an unqualified except
and print an error message "Unspecified error, probably ill-formatted
database". Fixes #765621.

Pimp crashed if you tried to install a non-installable package, in stead
of printing a decent error message. Fixes #773450..

setting of sCursor happened in an assert.

This patch was provided by Jeremy Kloth, and corresponds to pyexpat.c
1.77 in the PyXML CVS.

Closes SF bug #774480.

Make some module references hyperlinks.

New Plan (releases to be made off the head, ongoing random 2.4 stuff
to be done on a short-lived branch, provided anyone is motivated enough
to create one).