Updated all the bug entries. Rehabilitated extended print. Added latest

commonprefix development.  Added info about impending death of winreg.py.

pep-0200.txt

@@ -91,6 +91,12 @@ Failing test cases need to get fixed
     test case         platform   R B    date reported
     ---------         --------   - -    -------------
     test_winreg2      Win32      X X    26-Jul-2000
+        [19-Aug-2000 tim
+         This test will never work on Win98, because it's looking for
+         a part of registry that doesn't exist under W98.
+         The module (winreg.py) and this test case will be removed
+         before 2.0 for other reasons, though.
+        ]
         [still fails 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim
          test test_winreg2 failed -- Writing: 'Test Failed: testHives',
          expected: 'HKEY_PERFORMANCE_DATA\012'
@@ -107,6 +113,13 @@ Failing test cases need to get fixed
 
     test_fork1        Linux      X      26-Jul-2000     just SMP?
         [no clue; there are probably two bugs here]
+        [19-Aug-200 tim
+         Charles Waldman whipped up a patch to give child processes a new
+         "global lock":
+         http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=101226&group_id=5470
+         While this doesn't appear to address the symptoms we *saw*, it
+         *does* so far appear to be fixing the failing cases anyway
+        ]
 
 
 Previously failing test cases
@@ -137,6 +150,11 @@ Previously failing test cases
          but can't provoke anything wrong with test_longexp
          anymore; eyeballing Fred's changes didn't turn up
          a suspect either
+         19-Aug-2000, tim: the "subtle bug" in regrtest.py -v is
+         actually a feature:  -v masks *some* kinds of failures,
+         since it doesn't compare test output with the canned
+         output; this is what makes it say "test passed" even
+         in some cases where the test fails without -v
         ]
 
 
@@ -147,6 +165,19 @@ Open items -- should be done/fixed
     raised during hashing or comparison.
 
     Decide what to do about os.path.commonprefix.  Then do it.
+    [19-Aug-2000 tim
+     Guido msg on Python-Dev:
+     - restore the old behavior on all platforms
+     - add to the docs that to get the common directory you use dirname()
+     - add testcases that check that this works on all platforms
+     - don't add commonpathprefix(), because dirname() already does it
+    ]
+
+    Remove winreg.py and test_winreg2.py.  Paul Prescod (the author)
+    now wants to make a registry API more like the MS .NET API.  Unclear
+    whether that can be done in time for 2.0, but, regardless, if we
+    let winreg.py out the door we'll be stuck with it forever, and not
+    even Paul wants it anymore.
 
 
 Accepted and completed
@@ -208,6 +239,12 @@ Accepted and in progress
       for normal slices as well as for extended ones. First step: use
       getitem if there is no getslice.
 
+    * Extended print statement - Barry Warsaw
+      PEP 214
+      http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0214.html
+      SF Patch #100970
+      http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100970&group_id=5470
+
 
 Open: proposed but not accepted or rejected
 
@@ -224,12 +261,6 @@ Open: proposed but not accepted or rejected
 
 Postponed
 
-    * Extended print statement - Barry Warsaw
-      PEP 214
-      http://python.sourceforge.net/peps/pep-0214.html
-      SF Patch #100970
-      http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100970&group_id=5470
-
     * Eliminated SET_LINENO opcode - Vladimir Marangozov
       Small optimization achieved by using the code object's lnotab
       instead of the SET_LINENO instruction.  Uses code rewriting