Commit 8b09233f authored by Tim Peters's avatar Tim Peters

Added Windows news. Also repeated 1.6 Windows news since most people getting

2.0b1 for Windows will not have bothered getting 1.6.  Also changed
"Changed, New, Obsolete Tools" to say "None" since nobody had put an entry
there.
parent 7a12ef34
...@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ poly, zmod, strop, util, whatsound. ...@@ -367,7 +367,7 @@ poly, zmod, strop, util, whatsound.
Changed, New, Obsolete Tools Changed, New, Obsolete Tools
---------------------------- ----------------------------
XXX: are there any? If not, say "None" here. None.
C-level Changes C-level Changes
...@@ -418,4 +418,35 @@ extra flag argument that tells them to close the file when done. ...@@ -418,4 +418,35 @@ extra flag argument that tells them to close the file when done.
XXX There were other API changes that should be fleshed out here. XXX There were other API changes that should be fleshed out here.
Windows Changes
---------------
New popen2/popen3/peopen4 in os module (see Changed Modules above).
os.popen is much more usable on Windows 95 and 98. See Microsoft
Knowledge Base article Q150956. The Win9x workaround described there
is implemented by the new w9xpopen.exe helper in the root of your
Python installation. Note that Python uses this internally; it is not
a standalone program.
Administrator privileges are no longer required to install Python
on Windows NT or Windows 2000. If you have administrator privileges,
Python's registry info will be written under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE.
Otherwise the installer backs off to writing Python's registry info
under HKEY_CURRENT_USER. The latter is sufficent for all "normal"
uses of Python, but will prevent some advanced uses from working
(for example, running a Python script as an NT service, or possibly
from CGI).
[This was new in 1.6] The installer no longer runs a separate Tcl/Tk
installer; instead, it installs the needed Tcl/Tk files directly in the
Python directory. If you already have a Tcl/Tk installation, this
wastes some disk space (about 4 Megs) but avoids problems with
conflicting Tcl/Tk installations, and makes it much easier for Python
to ensure that Tcl/Tk can find all its files.
[This was new in 1.6] The Windows installer now installs by default in
\Python20\ on the default volume, instead of \Program Files\Python-2.0\.
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