[Pythonmac-SIG] CFURL Pain

[has]

Bob wrote:

>>>Well I can verify that there definitely are serious problems with 
>>>CFURL after screwing around with it a bit.
>>
>>Figures. Yuck. Must be bgen's revenge for all the nasty things we 
>>ever said about it.
>
>All the nasty things I ever said about it are because of things like this :)

But it's so quick! As long as you're Jack and know how to use it. If 
you're not Jack, I guess you're screwed. On second thoughts, given 
Jack's existing To-Do list is probably the size of K2 he's probably 
screwed too. :p

I wonder if it'd be easier just to hand-code wrappers using Pyrex, 
perhaps with a very basic macro system that automates only the 
simplest of tasks. A lower level automation that works well might 
ultimately be more productive than total automation that tends 
towards flakiness. While a single person wouldn't be able to wrap 
nearly as many APIs, the wrappers that did get done would probably be 
more reliable due to the extra attention; maybe a bit nicer to use 
too. Plus it'd make it easier for more folk to write these wrappers, 
taking some pressure off Jack.


>>>Too bad :)  If you're writing Mac OS X specific code you 
>>>**really** should have PyObjC anyway.
>>
>>Oh, I have. It's all the casual users who don't that present the 
>>problem. If PyObjC is going to be so essential to all aspects of 
>>MacPython usage then it's really time for it to join the standard 
>>library.
>
>So let's offer a package that includes appscript, PyObjC, and py2app 
>in one installer.

I do recall Jack saying something about maybe having a smaller core 
library and moving a lot of the non-essential stuff to an external 
package that could be managed independently; kind of a 'second tier'. 
Perhaps that would be the way to do it: more flexibility for 
individual package developers since they're not tied to the official 
Python upgrade cycle while still providing a quick and simple 
one-stop installation for users. Even modules that are destined for 
the core library would benefit from spending some time at this 
halfway house first while all the kinks are worked out (e.g. OSA.so). 
Might be worth exploring to see what sort of infrastructure it would 
require to run.

HTH

has
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