macholib 1.4.1

macholib can be used to analyze and edit Mach-O headers, the executable
format used by Mac OS X.

It's typically used as a dependency analysis tool, and also to rewrite dylib
references in Mach-O headers to be @executable_path relative.

Though this tool targets a platform specific file format, it is pure python
code that is platform and endian independent.


Release history
===============

macholib 1.4.1
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macholib 1.4.1 is a minor feature release

Features:

- Add support for a number of new MachO load commands that were added
during the lifetime of OSX 10.6: ``LC_LOAD_UPWARD_DYLIB``,
``LC_VERSION_MIN_MACOSX``, ``LC_VERSION_MIN_IPHONEOS`` and
``LC_FUNCTION_STARTS``.

macholib 1.4
-------------

macholib 1.4 is a feature release

Features:

- Documentation is now generated using `sphinx <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx>`_
and can be viewed at <http://packages.python.org/macholib>.

- The repository has moved to bitbucket

- There now is a testsuite

- Private functionality inside modules was renamed to
a name starting with an underscore.

.. note:: if this change affects your code you are relying on undefined
implementation features, please stop using private functions.

- The basic packable types in ``macholib.ptypes`` were renamed to better
represent the corresponding C type. The table below lists the old
an new names (the old names are still available, but are deprecated and
will be removed in a future release).

+--------------+--------------+
| **Old name** | **New name** |
+==============+==============+
| p_byte | p_int8 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_ubyte | p_uint8 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_short | p_int16 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_ushort | p_uint16 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_int | p_int32 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_uint | p_uint32 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_long | p_int32 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_ulong | p_uint32 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_longlong | p_int64 |
+--------------+--------------+
| p_ulonglong | p_uint64 |
+--------------+--------------+

``Macholib.ptypes.p_ptr`` is no longer present as it had an unclear
definition and isn't actually used in the codebase.


Bug fixes:

- The semantics of ``dyld.dyld_default_search`` were changed a bit,
it now first searches the framework path (if appropriate) and then
the linker path, irrespective of the value of the ``DYLD_FALLBACK*``
environment variables.

Previous versions would change the search order when those variables
was set, which is odd and doesn't correspond with the documented
behaviour of the system dyld.

- It is once again possible to install using python2.5

- The source distribution includes all files, this was broken
due to the switch to mercurial (which confused setuptools)

macholib 1.3
------------

macholib 1.3 is a feature release.

Features:

- Experimental Python 3.x support

This version contains lightly tested support for Python 3.

macholib 1.2.2
--------------

macholib 1.2.2 is a bugfix release.

Bug fixes:

- Macholib should work better with 64-bit code
(patch by Marc-Antoine Parent)