The future (was: [Pythonmac-SIG] FAQ item)

Ronald Oussoren oussoren at cistron.nl
Tue Jul 29 23:55:03 EDT 2003


On Tuesday, 29 July, 2003, at 22:08, Jack Jansen wrote:

>
> On dinsdag, jul 29, 2003, at 21:29 Europe/Amsterdam, Bob Ippolito 
> wrote:
>> What about the bootstrap problem (Package Manager vs. PyObjC)?
>>
>> You planning to make PyObjC one of MacPython 2.4's "batteries" ?
>
Nah, PyObjC is planning a hostile takeover of MacPython :-) :-)

> I'm rather happy with the engine part as it is, there's some 
> repackaging to be
> done (CoreFoundation and QuickTime should move out of Carbon, all three
> should be generated from OSX-native headers in stead of old Universal 
> Headers,
> maybe the submodules of Carbon should become transparent, that sort of 
> things),
> but I'm pretty delighted with the current state of things.

What about wrapping more of CoreFoundation, such as CFRunLoop? 
Installing an upgraded version of the Carbon wrappers might be an 
"interesting" experience :-)

>
> So this means 2.4 would simply become a point in time at which we 
> incorporate
> all the new tools and functionality into a single installer, deprecate 
> the old
> functionality and kill the old tools.

BTW. You didn't answer Bob's question ;-). I've no strong opionions on 
that issue yet, I'm happy enough with being a seperate project for now. 
Better integration with the rest of MacPython would be nice though, 
being able to do everything (Cocoa, Carbon, OSA, CGI scripts, ...) in 
Python is a major selling point for Python on the Mac.

Ronald




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