[Pythonmac-SIG] Extensions for static versus frame

Jeff Senn senn@maya.com
Thu, 18 Jul 2002 18:30:32 -0400


Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:
> I don't want to do this, because the interface is undocumented. CPS
> would also have allowed us to do other nifty things, like connecting
> to the window server without being in a .app framework,  but I think
> relying on undocumented calls is simply too dangerous.
>
> At some point in the future there's a good chance Apple will take the
> interface away, and suddenly Python stops working. And it will really
> stop working: you'll get an undefined external when you try to start
> the interpreter.

Could you put the feature in a dynamically loaded module? At least then
the failover could be somewhat more graceful...

-- 
-Jas