On 11/1/07, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what it is worth: I agree that most of the mac libraries, such as > the entire Carbon package, shouldn't be part of the standard library. > > The reason for that is simple: the release-cycle of the MacOS bindings > are currently bound to the release cycle of major releases of Python > (e.g. one cannot do functional changes to the Carbon in the 2.5.x > branch), but should IMO be synchronized with platform releases.
Very good point. > However, I also think the mac libraries shouldn't be removed from the > standard library without someone stepping in to transform them into > (a) standalone package(s). Alternatively the functionality should be > available in other packages (such as PyObjC). Are you volunteering? -- --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
