Also, IMO the Mac-specific stuff was a lot more important before OSX. The really interesting Mac stuff is the ObjC bridge which is not maintained here anyway.
--Guido 2007/10/30, Brett Cannon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/29/07, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 2007/10/27, Bill Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > ISTR much of the plat-mac stuff was generated by Tools/bgen. If so, > > > > that > > > > would be the place to fix things. > > > > > > Sure looks like generated code. Be nice if that generator was run > > > during the build process, on OS X. That way you'd be sure to get code > > > that matches the platform and codebase. > > > > ISTR that the generator needs a lot of hand-holding. Fixing it would > > be A Project. > > Just so that it is publicly known, when the Great Stdlib Reorg begins, > I am seriously thinking of paring down the Mac stuff to the bare > minimum. I think the only reason all the Mac stuff was even allowed > in to begin with was because Jack was one of the first contributors to > Python (but that is just a hunch). It seems rather unfair to have all > of this Mac stuff in the stdlib while Windows doesn't go far beyond > _winreg and everything else is kept in win32all. Considering it has > gone this far into Py3K and no one has noticed that it was broken kind > of says something anyway. > > And no, I don't know when I am going to start doing the cleanup as I > am under time pressure for three proposals between now and late > December. > > -Brett > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
