How about this: delete them in 2.6 (3.0 will follow after a merge); in 2.5.2, put them inside an #if or #ifdef. Bonus points if you can use a condition that's true on 10.4 and false on 10.5, but always false is okay with me too, as long as there's a comment explaining it.
--Guido On Dec 5, 2007 12:08 PM, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Dec, 2007, at 17:56, Guido van Rossum wrote: > > > Thanks! The sooner the better given that tonight (PST) I plan to do > > the code freeze for the 3.0a2 release, and Anthony is also making > > noises about 2.5.2 again. > > I'm working on it right now. I would like a pronouncement on a > backward incompatible change though: > > The _OSA module doesn't compile anymore because it wraps an API that > was unsupported in 10.4 and was removed in 10.5. I can probably add > some configury-logic to detect if the API is still present, but would > prefer to remove those wrappers completely. That's no problem for 2.6 > and 3.0, but strictly speaking this would introduce a backward > incompatibility in 2.5.2. > > The wrappers are for debugging functionality and unlikely to be used > by anyone. > > BTW. the wrappers for OSADebug* functions are now gone in the trunk > (as of revision 59369). > > Ronald > > > > > > > > --Guido > > > > On Dec 4, 2007 11:19 PM, Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> > >> On 4 Dec, 2007, at 22:49, Guido van Rossum wrote: > >> > >>> On OSX 10.5 with Xcode 3.0, whenever I build either the trunk or the > >>> py3k or 25 branches, I get a series of errors when setup.py tries to > >>> build the _OSA module. On OSX 10.4 it builds fine. Can anybody help? > >>> I don't even know what OSA is! > >> > >> I'll try to do a crude fix later this week. The Carbon bindings also > >> wrap some deprecated API's, some of which were dropped in Leopard. > >> We're kind of lucky that _OSA is the only one that no longer > >> compiles. > >> > >> A correct fix will take some more time, as this will require > >> retargeting the bgen tool to use System headers instead of the OS9 > >> (!) > >> headers that were used to generate the current Carbon bindings. > >> > >> Ronald > >> > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) > > -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
