ANNOUNCE: Newer 2.1 RPMs.

[Sean Reifschneider]

Not only did the last announcement contain errors, so did the package.
<sigh>  Here an updated announcement, use these ones instead of the 2.1-3
version.  IDLE now works as well.

If anyone wants to contribute to this project, I have a few ideas on how to
make an RPM verification tool.  ;-)

Sean

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Through a quirk in RPM, the 2.1-2 RPMs still had pymalloc enabled.
I've added some work-arounds to resolve this.  Thanks to Ron Bickers
for pointing it out (and to Kevin Fenzi for the GHz Athlon box on which
I did a few dozen builds to come up with the work-around ;-).

Also new in this version is the "tools" sub-package, including the contents
of the "Tools" directory, and IDLE can be run via "/usr/bin/idle".
Thanks to Jason R. Mastaler for the -tools suggestion.

You can find the SRPM at:

   ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/SRPMS/python2-2.1-4.src.rpm

And binaries for RedHat/KRUD 7.0 at:

   ftp://ftp.tummy.com/pub/tummy/RPMS/binaries-KRUD-7.0-i386/

where you'll find the packages:

   python2-2.1-4.i386.rpm
   python2-devel-2.1-4.i386.rpm
   python2-tkinter-2.1-4.i386.rpm
   python2-tools-2.1-4.i386.rpm

NOTE: There are also "python-*" versions of these packages, which are
configured to install "/usr/bin/python" instead of "/usr/bin/python2".
Only pick up one of the "python2-*" or "python-*" package sets.

Sean
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