test case         platform    date reported
---------         --------    -------------
test_mmap         Win ME      03-Sep-2000       Windows 2b1p2 prelease
    [04-Sep-2000 tim
     reported by Audun S. Runde mailto:audun@mindspring.com
     the mmap constructor fails w/
        WindowsError: [Errno 6] The handle is invalid
     since there are no reports of this failing on other
     flavors of Windows, this looks like to be an ME bug
    ]

test case         platform    date reported
---------         --------    -------------
test_fork1        Linux       26-Jul-2000
    [28-aug-2000 fixed by cgw; solution is to create copies of
    lock in child process]
    [19-Aug-2000 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
    ]

test_parser       all         22-Aug-2000
test_posixpath    all         22-Aug-2000

test_popen2       Win32       26-Jul-2000
    [31-Aug-2000 tim
     This died again, but for an entirely different reason:  it uses a
     dict to map file pointers to process handles, and calls a dict
     access function during popen.close().  But .close releases threads,
     which left the internal popen code accessing the dict without a
     valid thread state.  The dict implementation changed so that's no
     longer accepted.  Fixed by creating a temporary thread state in the
     guts of popen's close routine, and grabbing the global lock with
     it for the duration]
    [20-Aug-2000 tim
     changed the popen2.py _test function to use the "more" cmd
     when os.name == "nt".  This makes test_popen2 pass under
     Win98SE.
     HOWEVER, the Win98 "more" invents a leading newline out
     of thin air, and I'm not sure that the other Windows flavors
     of "more" also do that.
     So, somebody please try under other Windows flavors!
    ]
    [still fails 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim
         test test_popen2 crashed -- exceptions.AssertionError :
     The problem is that the test uses "cat", but there is
     no such thing under Windows (unless you install it).
     So it's the test that's broken here, not (necessarily)
     the code.
    ]

test_winreg        Win32      26-Jul-2000
    [works 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim]

test_mmap          Win32      26-Jul-2000
    [believe that was fixed by Mark H.]
    [works 15-Aug-2000 for me, on Win98 - tim]

test_longexp      Win98+?     15-Aug-2000
    [fails in release build,
     passes in release build under verbose mode but doesn't
         look like it should pass,
     passes in debug build,
     passes in debug build under verbose mode and looks like
         it should pass
    ]
    [18-Aug-2000, tim:  can't reproduce, and nobody else
     saw it.  I believe there *is* a subtle bug in
     regrtest.py when using -v, and I'll pursue that,
     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
    ]

test_winreg2      Win32       26-Jul-2000
    [20-Aug-2000 tim - the test has been removed from the project]
    [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'
    ]

[4-Sep-2000 guido: Fredrik finished this on 1-Sep]
* PyErr_Format - Fredrik Lundh
  Make this function safe from buffer overflows.

[4-Sep-2000 guido: Fred has added popen2, popen3 on 28-Sep]
Add popen2 support for Linux -- Fred Drake

[4-Sep-2000 guido: done on 1-Sep]
Deal with buffering problem with SocketServer

[04-Sep-2000 tim:  done; installer runs; w9xpopen not an issue]
[01-Sep-2000 tim:  make a prerelease available]
Windows ME:  Don't know anything about it.  Will the installer
even run?  Does it need the w9xpopen hack?

[04-Sep-2000 tim:  done; tested on several Windows flavors now]
[01-Sep-2000 tim:  completed but untested except on Win98SE]
Windows installer:  If HKLM isn't writable, back off to HKCU (so
Python can be installed on NT & 2000 without admin privileges).

[01-Sep-200 tim - as Guido said, runtime code in posixmodule.c doesn't
 call this on NT/2000, so no need to avoid installing it everywhere.
 Added code to the installer *to* install it, though.]
Windows installer:  Install w9xpopen.exe only under Win95/98.

[23-Aug-2000 jeremy - tim reports "completed recently"]
Windows:  Look for registry info in HKCU before HKLM - Mark
Hammond.

[20-Aug-2000 tim - done]
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.

[24-Aug-2000 tim+guido - done]
Win98 Guido:  popen is hanging on Guido, and even freezing the
whole machine.  Was caused by Norton Antivirus 2000 (6.10.20) on
Windows 9x.  Resolution: disable virus protection.