New News:
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I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.3-2.  The tarballs should be
available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly.

On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 12:06:03AM -0400, Charles Wilson wrote:
>  Jason Tishler wrote:
>  >New News:
>  >=== ====
>  >I have updated the version of Python to 2.2.3-1.  The tarballs should
>  >be available on a Cygwin mirror near you shortly.
>  
>  _tkinter.dll is missing from 2.2.3-1.  It was present in the previous
>  version, 2.2.2-7.

The -2 package corrects the above.  Otherwise, this package should be
identical to the previous one.

Just in case anyone is interested, this was the first time I built a
Python 2.2.x on my new PC.  I guess I'm guilty of failing to read my
own README. :,)  Specifically, the following item:

    2. The _tkinter extension module will only be built if the X11
    header files from the tcltk-20030214-1 source archive have been
    copied to /usr/include:
    [snip]

Old News:
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Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language.  If interested, see the Python web site for more details:
                                                                   
    http://www.python.org/                                         

Please read the README file:
                            
    /usr/doc/Cygwin/python-2.2.3.README

since it covers requirements, installation, known issues, etc.

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
the http://cygwin.com/ web page.  This downloads setup.exe to your
system.  Then, run setup and answer all of the questions.

Note that we have recently stopped downloads from sources.redhat.com
(aka cygwin.com) due to bandwidth limitations.  This means that you will
need to find a mirror which has this update.

In the US,
ftp://mirrors.rcn.net/mirrors/sources.redhat.com/cygwin/
is a reliable high bandwidth connection.

In Germany,
ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/pc/gnuwin32/cygwin/mirrors/cygnus/
is usually pretty good.

In the UK,
http://programming.ccp14.ac.uk/ftp-mirror/programming/cygwin/pub/cygwin/
is usually up-to-date within 48 hours.

If one of the above doesn't have the latest version of this package
then you can either wait for the site to be updated or find another
mirror.

The setup.exe program will figure out what needs to be updated on your
system and will install newer packages automatically.

If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin
mailing list at: cygwin@[...].com .  I would appreciate if you would
use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly.  This includes
ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general.

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