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

[Brett Cannon]

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.

-Brett