note module removals, update on BitTorrent issue

Andrew MacIntyre · Andrew MacIntyre · commit 3dac89edaf4a · 2004-10-03T08:26:36.000Z
diff --git a/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx b/PC/os2emx/README.os2emx
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Readline and GDBM are covered by the GNU General Public Licence.  I think
 Eberhard Mattes' porting changes to BSD DB v1.85 are also GPL'ed (BSD DB 
 itself is BSD Licenced).  ncurses and expat appear to be covered by MIT 
 style licences - please refer to the source distributions for more detail.  
-zlib is distributable under a very free license.  GNU MP and GNU UFC are 
-under the GNU LGPL (see file COPYING.lib).
+zlib is distributable under a very free license.  GNU UFC is under the 
+GNU LGPL (see file COPYING.lib).
 
 My patches to the Python-2.x source distributions, and any other packages 
 used in this port, are placed in the public domain.
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ My development system is running OS/2 v4 with fixpack 12.
 - GNU GDBM     (Kai Uwe Rommel's port available from Hobbes or LEO, v1.7.3)
 - zlib         (derived from Hung-Chi Chu's port of v1.1.3, v1.1.4)
 - expat        (distributed with Python, v1.95.6)
-- GNU MP       (Peter Meerwald's port available from LEO, v2.0.2)
 - GNU UFC      (Kai Uwe Rommel's port available from LEO, v2.0.4)
 
 
@@ -125,8 +124,8 @@ Where I've been able to locate the required 3rd party packages already
 ported to OS/2, I've built and included them.
 
 These include ncurses (_curses, _curses_panel), BSD DB (bsddb185), 
-GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), GNU MP (mpz) 
-and GNU UFC (crypt).
+GNU GDBM (gdbm, dbm), zlib (zlib), GNU Readline (readline), and GNU UFC 
+(crypt).
 
 Expat is now included in the Python release sourceball, and the pyexpat 
 module is always built.
@@ -326,7 +325,6 @@ Procedure
    zlib (1.1.4)          HAVE_ZLIB
    GNU UltraFast Crypt   HAVE_UFC
    Tcl/Tk                HAVE_TCLTK (not known to work)
-   GNU MP                HAVE_GMPZ
    GNU Readline          HAVE_GREADLINE
    BSD DB (v1.85)        HAVE_BSDDB
    ncurses               HAVE_NCURSES
@@ -625,8 +623,9 @@ item 13 above), the BitTorrent curses downloader works too.  I'd
 appreciate any success or failure reports with BitTorrent, though
 I've regretfully recommended that the person who reported the failure
 take this up with eCS support.  Since this report, I have received a 
-followup which suggests that the problem may have been a buggy network 
-card driver.  I think it suffices to say that BitTorrent is a fair stress 
+followup which suggests that the problem may be addressed by TCP/IP 
+fixes (IC35005+PJ29457, contained in NEWSTACK.ZIP in the Hobbes 
+archive).  I think it suffices to say that BitTorrent is a fair stress 
 test of a system's networking capability.
 
 25.  In the absence of an EMX implementation of the link() function, I've 
@@ -649,6 +648,9 @@ implementation in IBM's TCP/IP stack:-
 - unlike Unix, the socket endpoints don't exist in the filesystem;
 - by default, sockets are in binary mode.
 
+27.  As of Python 2.4, the mpz, rotor and xreadlines modules have been 
+dropped from the Python source tree.
+
 ... probably other issues that I've not encountered, or don't remember :-(
 
 If you encounter other difficulties with this port, which can be 
@@ -688,4 +690,4 @@ Andrew MacIntyre
 E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au, or andymac@pcug.org.au
 Web:    http://www.andymac.org/
 
-11 April, 2004.
+3 October, 2004.
