[Jython-checkins] jython: Project doc updates

[jim.baker]

https://hg.python.org/jython/rev/11e6776f80c2
changeset:   7689:11e6776f80c2
user:        Jim Baker <jim.baker at rackspace.com>
date:        Mon Apr 20 17:28:49 2015 -0600
summary:
  Project doc updates

files:
  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS |   6 +++---
  NEWS            |  21 +++++++++++++++++++--
  README.txt      |  32 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
  3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)


diff --git a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
--- a/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
+++ b/ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 Jython: Python for the Java Platform
 
-Copyright (c) 2000-2014 Jython Developers.
+Copyright (c) 2000-2015 Jython Developers.
 All rights reserved.
 
 Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@
 Yin Wang and Steve Yegge contributed the static analyzer from Google
 (also called indexer).
 
-The Jython startup script (bin/jython) was adapted from the similar
-script written for JRuby.
+The Jython bash startup script (fallback for bin/jython) was adapted
+from the similar script written for JRuby.
 
 A huge thanks goes to all the members of the jpython/jython
 mailing lists.  Other folks who have contributed to JPython and 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,9 +4,26 @@
 
 Jython 2.7rc3
   Bugs fixed
+   - [ 2311, 2319 ] Many compatibility fixes for launcher (bin/jython, bin/jython.exe)
+   - [ 2332 ] jython -m test.regrtest -e now finds the tests it should
+   - [ 1572 ] sys-package-mgr console messages silenced by default. Thanks to Emmanuel Jannetti.
+   - [ 2327 ] Tests in org/python/tests/imp run only with  proper path
+   - [ 2105 ] Fix inconsistent conversion of PyObject to String in StdoutWrapper
+   - [ 1795 ] Support both subclassing from Java in a Python class and a Python implementation of __tojava__
+   - [ 1861 ] Fix threading.Lock to support non-reentrant semantics
+   - [ 2323 ] Fixes pickling issues in object.__reduce__ and cPickle.{load, loads}
+   - [ 1540 ] Fix stack overflow due to how proxies for Java classes resolve super method in Java
+   - [ 2325 ] Enable piping input into Jython without getting extraneous prompt output
+   - [ 2324 ] Fix index computation for StringBuilder after seek back in cStringIO
+   - [ 2171 ] Fixed direct calls to __pow__() on int, long and float with a modulo of None
    - [ 2326 ] Java's weakly consistent iteration of ConcurrentMap is compatible with mutation
-   - [ 1572 ] sys-package-mgr console messages silenced by default. Thanks to Emmanuel Jannetti.
-   - [ 2332 ] jython -m test.regrtest -e now finds the tests it should.
+   - [ 2322 ] Refreshed several networking modules from CPython 2.7.9 due to CVE-2013-1752
+   - [ 1670 ] Added automatic type coercion of decimal.Decimal to java.lang.{Double, Float}
+   - Pull in hand coded AST work into code gen in asdl_antlr
+   - [ 2307 ] Fixed normalization of paths on Windows
+   - Module tempfile now returns temporary directory in proper case (See also CPython issue 14255)
+   - Faster extended slice deletion in bytearray.
+   - [ 2304 ] Fixed __module__ missing from functions in the time and operator modules
 
 Jython 2.7rc2
   Bugs fixed
diff --git a/README.txt b/README.txt
--- a/README.txt
+++ b/README.txt
@@ -1,15 +1,27 @@
-Welcome to Jython 2.7rc2
-========================
+Jython: Python for the Java Platform
 
-This is the second release candidate of the 2.7 version of Jython. Thanks to
-Amobee (http://www.amobee.com/) for sponsoring this release.  Thanks to all who
-contribute to Jython.
+Welcome to Jython 2.7rc3!
 
-Jython 2.7rc2 includes many bug fixes and code stabilization in prep for
-release candidates.
+This is the third release candidate of the 2.7 version of
+Jython. Along with language and runtime compatibility with CPython
+2.7, Jython 2.7rc3 provides substantial support of the Python
+ecosystem. This includes built-in support of pip/setuptools (start
+with bin/pip) and a native launcher for Windows (bin/jython.exe) means
+that you can install scripts.
 
-Please see the NEWS file for detailed release notes.
+Jim Baker presented a talk at PyCon 2015 about Jython 2.7, including
+demos of new features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLm3garVQFo
 
-The release was compiled on OSX with JDK 7 and requires JDK 7 to run.
+The release was compiled on OSX using JDK 7 and requires a minimum of
+Java 7 to run.
 
-Please try this out and report any bugs at http://bugs.jython.org.
+Please try this release out and report any bugs at http://bugs.jython.org
+
+Pleae see ACKNOWLEDGMENTS for details about Jython's copyright,
+license, contributors, and mailing lists; and NEWS for detailed
+release notes, including bugs fixed, backwards breaking changes, and
+new features. Thanks go to Amobee (http://www.amobee.com/) for
+sponsoring this release. We also deeply thank all who contribute to
+Jython, including - but not limited to - bug reports, patches, pull
+requests, documentation changes, support emails, and fantastic
+conversation on Freenode on #jython.

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Repository URL: https://hg.python.org/jython