[Python-3000] PEP 3108 - stdlib reorg/cleanup

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 30 Apr, 2008, at 2:17, Brett Cannon wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, David Bolen <db3l.net at gmail.com>  
> wrote:
>> "Brett Cannon" <brett at python.org> writes:
>>
>>> Also realize all of the right people have been consulted on this  
>>> stuff
>>> (e.g., the web SIG about the urllib package). So please do not think
>>> that something that seems drastic (e.g., the removal of all
>>> Mac-specific modules) was taken lightly when in fact the proper  
>>> people
>>> were asked and they were okay with what is going on.
>>
>> Are there any thoughts on providing some other distribution or  
>> mechanism
>> to build selected Mac modules post-removal?  Is it likely to be  
>> possible
>> to grab current 2.x source and build as part of 3.x, providing it's  
>> not
>> a 64-bit system or UCS-4 configuration unsupported by bgen?
>>
>> I have an application using the QuickTime portion of the Carbon  
>> package
>> very successfully in recent code (with a primarily Tiger-based user
>> base), where the higher level Cocoa/ObjC frameworks didn't provide  
>> the
>> necessary functionality under Tiger - it would be nice to have some  
>> path
>> to maintaining that across a 2.x/3.x transition, even if I had to  
>> build
>> something locally.
>>
>
> Even when the code is removed it will still be in the svn history so
> you should be able to grab it easily.

More importantly: there is no reason why the Carbon stuff couldn't be  
released
as a standalone package.  IMHO that's much better in the long run anyway
because this allows updates to the Carbon bindings independent of Python
releases.

Ronald

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