[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3 - Carbon only?

[Nathan Heagy]

I think that this only limits what platform can be used for development. I
expect to be corrected if I'm wrong however.

Nathan



On Fri, 4 Jan 2002, Magladry, Stephen wrote:

> I guess I'll be a voice of dissention. I work for a game company writing
> kids software. We try to keep our min specs as broad as possible. As a point
> of reference, our current min specs is 7.5.5. In our up coming games we plan
> to use Python. A requirement of 8.6 cuts into our potential market. Also,
> 8.6 is only about 2 and a half years old.
>
> True we can just stay with 2.2, but there may be some feature in 2.3 that we
> may really want to use. At that time, we would be stuck between a rock
> (wanting the new feature) and a hard place (Having our min spec jump up).
>
> 		-----Original Message-----
> 		From:	Jack Jansen [mailto:jack@oratrix.nl]
> 		Sent:	Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:47 PM
> 		To:	pythonmac-sig@python.org
> 		Subject:	[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3 - Carbon only?
>
> 		Folks,
> 		I'm toying with the idea of making MacPython 2.3
> Carbon-only, as this
> 		would save a lot of development effort. And there are a lot
> of things
> 		I'd like to do, for one thing I would like all our MacPython
> goodies
> 		to run natively in MachoPython by the time 2.3 is released.
>
> 		There are two drawbacks to this plan:
> 		1. MacPython wouldn't run on 8.5 anymore (for 8.1 MacPython
> 2.2 is the
> 		last release anyway), and on 8.6 you would need to manually
> install
> 		CarbonLib.
> 		2. Tkinter is going to be a problem, but I think it is a
> solvable
> 		problem (it is possible to load InterfaceLib-based code into
> a
> 		CarbonLib-based main program).
>
> 		What do people think?
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