Rev 4463: NEWS entry in http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/jam-integration

[John Arbash Meinel]

At http://bzr.arbash-meinel.com/branches/bzr/jam-integration

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revno: 4463
revision-id: john at arbash-meinel.com-20090625154112-tgg8jq0ldhaizseg
parent: john at arbash-meinel.com-20090625153905-qn3gi1r5ecxkyi0k
committer: John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com>
branch nick: jam-integration
timestamp: Thu 2009-06-25 10:41:12 -0500
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  NEWS entry
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   parameter to permit cross-format fetching to incrementally pack the
   converted data. (Robert Collins)
 
+* OS file locks are now taken out using ``CreateFile`` rather than
+  ``LockFileEx`` on Windows. The locking remains exclusive with
+  ``LockFileEx`` but now it also works on older versions of Windows (such
+  as Win98). (Martin <gzlist>)
+
 * pack <=> pack fetching is now done via a ``PackStreamSource`` rather
   than the ``Packer`` code. The user visible change is that we now
   properly fetch the minimum number of texts for non-smart fetching.