[Pythonmac-SIG] Carbon only for 2.3

[Dan Grassi]

Hi Jack,

IMHO you should not even consider non-carbon nor worry about putting 
fullblown carbon-depencencies
in the C source code -- it that makes your job easier.  If someone steps 
forward to work on a non-carbon version let them worry about that and 
fork the non-carbon version.  If no one steps forward then there is no 
champion and insufficient interest.  Even in the latter case every 
current Python program will continue to run.

I see no reason to hinder Python development and add complexity just 
because someone _may_ want to use a feature in a Python upgrade without 
upgrading the OS/computer to the minimum requirements of the upgrade 
version.  After all, what we are mainly talking about are features that 
can be accomplished more easily and more straight forwardly in a upgrade 
release but can still be accomplished in the current version.  Python 
meets the Turing Test so upgrades are not _necessary_ to produce any 
program. :-)  The ability to use niceties and better syntactic sugar is, 
IMHO, insufficient reason to hold back Python.

My main concern is getting a version that is stable and supports TK.  
Second would be the merger of the two OS X versions.

Dan

On Saturday, January 5, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

What I can do is that I try not to put fullblown carbon-depencencies
in the C source code