On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Greg Ward wrote:
... What 1.6 features are really, absolutely necessary, though? So far I see only one:
* registry access on Windows
Others?
Some people have suggested that distutils does some of its install work via the new import stuff. I'm not sure what that entails (I don't understand why distutils would need the custom importing/packaging that imputil provides). Also, I don't have feedback from Guido yet on what needs to happen to imputil before its incorporation into 1.6. So I'd count this as a "thought" rather than a requirement.
Oh yeah, will the registry-access code that Robin Becker posted work under 1.5.2 with Mark's extensions installed as well as under 1.6 with built-in registry support?
It won't work until 1.6 because we don't have the 1.6 design yet :-) But, there is no reason it shouldn't (with some creative try/except around some imports). Note that win32api isn't going into 1.6 -- either a new module from scratch, or a small extraction of win32api. In any case, it certainly won't (can't) be called win32api. Cheers, -g -- Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/