Files for second 2.1b1 distribution.

Mac/ReadMe

@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ need. Let me hear about problems in these areas.
 
 You should definitely read the Relnotes file too.
 
+A special note about the active installer: do not background it, it will hang
+your machine.
+
 ------
 
 If this is your first encounter with Python: you definitely need the
@@ -169,7 +172,8 @@ course. Mac-specific thanks go to the pythonmac-sig, Just van Rossum,
 Corran Webster, Tony Ingraldi, Erik van Blokland, Bill Bedford, Chris
 Stern, Gordon Worley, Oliver Steele, M. Papillon, Steven Majewski, David
 Goodger, Chris Barker, Luc Lefebvre, Tattoo Mabonzo K., Russell Finn,
-Tom Bridgman and all the other people who provided feedback, code or both!
+Tom Bridgman Russel Owen and all the other people who provided feedback,
+code or both!
 
 MacPython includes waste, a TextEdit replacement which is (c) 1998 Marco Piovanelli.
 

Mac/Relnotes

@@ -69,13 +69,16 @@ marked with [*] and at the bottom of the list.
   (PythonInterpreter). [*]
 - PythonIDE used to burn CPU cycles when idle, this has been fixed. PythonInterpreter
   still has the problem. [*]
+- A BBEdit language module by Chris Stern is included in the :Mac:Contrib folder. [*]
+- The ConfigurePython applets will now detect if the preference file refers to a different
+  folder than where they live. They offer to remove the preference file in this case. [*]
 
 
 What is not in this distribution
 --------------------------------
 
 - The garbage collection mods have not been enabled, mainly due to lack of test-time.
-- Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.0 yet. If/when it becomes available
+- Stackless Python/microthreads hasn't been ported to 2.1 yet. If/when it becomes available
   Just will undoubtedly announce it on pythonmac-sig and the MacPython homepage.
 
 Known problems
@@ -95,5 +98,9 @@ http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html.
   no clue as to what is causing this.
 - PythonInterpreter used interactively will eat a lot of processor cycles. You should use
   PythonIDE for interactive work and PythonInterpreter for scripts only.
-- Under MacOSX applets have to live in the Python folder, otherwise they cannot find
-  PythonCore. This is being worked on.
+- Under MacOSX Public Beta ConfigurePython cannot put PythonCore in the global CFMSupport
+  folder. Therefore applets have to live in the Python folder, otherwise they cannot find
+  PythonCore. There is a workaround if you want to have an applet in a different folder:
+  put an alias PythonCoreCarbon (pointing to the PythonCoreCarbon in the Python folder)
+  in the same folder as your applet.
+  This problem should in all probability not occur in the release version of MacOSX.