Commit da10017d authored by Terry Jan Reedy's avatar Terry Jan Reedy

Add recent IDLE NEWS items. Move Build sectios down.

parent b7c35153
......@@ -2,8 +2,42 @@ What's New in IDLE 2.7.11?
=========================
*Release date:
- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection
background, as configured by user, on all systems. Found items are now
always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger)
now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.
Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.
For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help.
* Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman).
* Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background.
* Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor.
* When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header
at the top of the screen.
- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor.
- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options.
Some were missing and notes were not correct.
- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change.
Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
......@@ -629,7 +663,7 @@ What's New in IDLE 1.2?
- The remote procedure call module rpc.py can now access data attributes of
remote registered objects. Changes to these attributes are local, however.
What's New in IDLE 1.1?
=======================
*Release date: 30-NOV-2004*
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......@@ -156,28 +156,45 @@ Library
- Issue #24134: Reverted issue #24134 changes.
Build
-----
IDLE
----
- Issue #24915: When doing a PGO build, the test suite is now used instead of
pybench; Clang support was also added as part off this work. Initial patch by
Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel.
- Issue #24972: Inactive selection background now matches active selection
background, as configured by user, on all systems. Found items are now
always highlighted on Windows. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors
when external libraries are not available.
- Issue #24570: Idle: make calltip and completion boxes appear on Macs
affected by a tk regression. Initial patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24508: Backported the MSBuild project files from Python 3.5. The
backported files replace the old project files in PCbuild; the old files moved
to PC/VS9.0 and remain supported.
- Issue #24988: Idle ScrolledList context menus (used in debugger)
now work on Mac Aqua. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL
1.0.2d.
- Issue #24801: Make right-click for context menu work on Mac Aqua.
Patch by Mark Roseman.
IDLE
----
- Issue #25173: Associate tkinter messageboxes with a specific widget.
For Mac OSX, make them a 'sheet'. Patch by Mark Roseman.
- Issue #25198: Enhance the initial html viewer now used for Idle Help.
* Properly indent fixed-pitch text (patch by Mark Roseman).
* Give code snippet a very Sphinx-like light blueish-gray background.
* Re-use initial width and height set by users for shell and editor.
* When the Table of Contents (TOC) menu is used, put the section header
at the top of the screen.
- Issue #25225: Condense and rewrite Idle doc section on text colors.
- Issue #21995: Explain some differences between IDLE and console Python.
- Issue #22820: Explain need for *print* when running file from Idle editor.
- Issue #25224: Doc: augment Idle feature list and no-subprocess section.
- Issue #25219: Update doc for Idle command line options.
Some were missing and notes were not correct.
- Issue #24861: Most of idlelib is private and subject to change.
Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
Use idleib.idle.* to start Idle. See idlelib.__init__.__doc__.
- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
......@@ -233,6 +250,23 @@ Tests
- PCbuild\rt.bat now accepts an unlimited number of arguments to pass along
to regrtest.py. Previously there was a limit of 9.
Build
-----
- Issue #24915: When doing a PGO build, the test suite is now used instead of
pybench; Clang support was also added as part off this work. Initial patch by
Alecsandru Patrascu of Intel.
- Issue #24986: It is now possible to build Python on Windows without errors
when external libraries are not available.
- Issue #24508: Backported the MSBuild project files from Python 3.5. The
backported files replace the old project files in PCbuild; the old files moved
to PC/VS9.0 and remain supported.
- Issue #24603: Update Windows builds and OS X 10.5 installer to use OpenSSL
1.0.2d.
Windows
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