[Idle-dev] Anticipated changes for Mac OS X

[Tony Lownds]

Hi idle-devers,

Another applet mechanism has come up on Mac OS X, and it requires 
more changes to the way the subprocess for GRPC is launched. I've 
posted a patch and assigned it to myself, if you care about that area 
of the code, please check it out.

One controversial item - I'm adding support for 2.2 back by using 
this piece of code in the script to launch idle:

# Make sure True, False, bool() builtins exist.
# - preserves 2.2 compatibility - 2.2.1 includes bool, 2.2 does not.
# - important for Mac OS X because it ships python 2.2
try:
   True
except NameError:
   __builtins__.True = 1
   __builtins__.False = 0
   from operator import truth
   __builtins__.bool = truth


p.s. when is the big merge-with-python happening?

-Tony