On Thu, Feb 04, 2010, Christopher Barker wrote: > > Peter Hanson, on the wxPython list, seems to have identified a bug in > the gestalt module, that may be a Carbon issue. It's a bit of an unusual > case: it freezes up wxPython, when wx is called from other than the main > thread. Robin Dunn suspects that it's a Carbon issue -- gestalt is > calling Carbon, and doing so in the main thread, so you are then trying > to call Carbon from more than one thread, which may be the cause of the > problem. I've confirmed that if you call gestalt from the same thread as > wxPython, there is no failure.
I've already complained that mac_ver() causes a crash with USING_FORK_WITHOUT_EXEC_IS_NOT_SUPPORTED_BY_FILE_MANAGER but I'm pretty sure we're not using wx on Mac, just Windows (we're using AppHelper). -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ import antigravity _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
