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List:       python-3000
Subject:    Re: [Python-3000] plat-mac seriously broken?
From:       "Guido van Rossum" <guido () python ! org>
Date:       2007-10-30 18:39:17
Message-ID: ca471dc20710301139v73834dd6uc8623a6033ff851f () mail ! gmail ! com
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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 <brett@python.org>:
> On 10/29/07, Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
> > 2007/10/27, Bill Janssen <janssen@parc.com>:
> > > > 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
>


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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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