On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Ronald Oussoren
On Friday, May 16, 2008, at 04:56PM, "M.-A. Lemburg"
wrote: Well, if we stick with the C version, it should just go into Modules.
It was in Mac/Modules/ and I had a look yesterday at getting it back in there, but the Mac build system looked to complicated to touch (esp. since gestalt is built as part of the Carbon lib stuff).
Someone else with more knowledge about the Mac build will have to give it a go.
Adding it to Modules shouldn't be to hard, the only special thing about the Mac libraries is that they require and addition link argument: "-framework Carbon".
Well, do we want to continue with this Modules sub-directory or should it just end up in the Mac directory itself, ala the PC directory and its extension modules?
This basically maps to the question whether Py3k will still support Mac OS 9 or not.
Mac OS 9 support was removed at least a version ago.
So lib-mac/ can basically stay gone or at least the modules still needed from there should be moved/revived to lib-darwin/.
I'm looking into this for python2.6 (although mostly to document the alternatives).
Benjamin has a patch up on Issue2854 to add the module back, but I think it is for adding the code to Modules. -Brett