EADK (AppPkg): Update the Python ReadMe file, Python/PythonReadMe.txt, to reflect the current status of the project.

Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
Signed-off-by: Daryl McDaniel <daryl.mcdaniel@intel.com>


git-svn-id: https://svn.code.sf.net/p/edk2/code/trunk/edk2@14804 6f19259b-4bc3-4df7-8a09-765794883524

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/AppPkg/Applications/Python/PythonReadMe.txt b/AppPkg/Applications/Python/PythonReadMe.txt
index cf51b99ad1..7d8b31f74b 100644
--- a/AppPkg/Applications/Python/PythonReadMe.txt
+++ b/AppPkg/Applications/Python/PythonReadMe.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
                                 EDK II Python

                                     ReadMe

-                                 Beta Release

-                                 23 Mar. 2012

+                                 Release 1.02

+                                 18 Jan. 2013

 

 

 1. OVERVIEW

@@ -16,18 +16,19 @@ packages within that distribution.
 

 2. Release Notes

 ================

-  1)  There is no input line editing.  Backspace, ^C, etc. do not work.

-  2)  All C extension modules must be statically linked (built in)

-  3)  The site and os modules must exist as discrete files in ...\lib\python.27

-  4)  User-specific configurations are not supported.

-  5)  Environment variables are not supported.

+  1)  All C extension modules must be statically linked (built in)

+  2)  The site and os modules must exist as discrete files in ...\lib\python.27

+  3)  User-specific configurations are not supported.

+  4)  Environment variables are not supported.

 

-3. Getting and Building the latest version of Python

+3. Getting and Building Python

 ======================================================

   3.1 Getting Python

   ==================

-  Currently only version 2.7.2 of the CPython distribution is supported.  The

-  source code can be downloaded from http://www.python.org/download/source/.

+  Currently only version 2.7.2 of the CPython distribution is supported.  For development

+  ease, a subset of the Python 2.7.2 distribution has been included in the AppPkg source

+  tree.  If a full distribution is desired, the Python-2.7.2 directory can be removed or

+  renamed and the full source code downloaded from http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.2/.

 

   A.  Within your EDK II development tree, extract the Python distribution into

     AppPkg/Applications/Python.  This should create the

@@ -93,7 +94,8 @@ system as follows:
         site    types     copy_reg    linecache     genericpath

 

   * Python C Extension Modules built as dynamically loadable extensions go into

-    the \Efi\StdLib\lib\python.27\lib-dynload directory.

+    the \Efi\StdLib\lib\python.27\lib-dynload directory.  This functionality is not

+    yet implemented.

 

 

 6. Example: Enabling socket support

@@ -191,6 +193,6 @@ Library that have been tested or used in some manner.
   dummy_thread.py         random.py                 weakref.py

   fileinput.py            re.py                     xmllib.py

   formatter.py            repr.py                   zipfile.py

-  functools.py            runpy.py

+  functools.py            runpy.py                  expat

 

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