[Pythonmac-SIG] Re: Python on Mac OS X w/shared modules

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, Tony Lownds wrote:

> 
> How do you think the FCNTL.py / fcntlmodule.so problem can be solved?
> 


Sorry I didn't reply right away -- I was thinking about this, but 
there's no magic solution. 

The short term solution is to rename one of the modules for OSX. 

We should probably take this part of the discussion to the main
python list, as the next question is whether FCNTL/fcntl should 
be left non-portable, or should be changed on all platforms -- 
which would probably break code. 

I've been rolling around some ideas on how to cover over the 
incompatabilities,  but so far nothing that isn't ugly or wouldn't
require changes to the module-lookup method that would likely be
just as controversial as renaming FCNTL. 


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