[stdlib-sig] All Mac modules listed for removal

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 19 Mar, 2008, at 21:22, Brett Cannon wrote:
> So I just updated PEP 3108 to remove every Mac-specific module. Since
> OS X includes Python and PyObjC then the usefulness of Mac-specific
> modules is really minimal. And with bgen still not supporting UCS-4
> builds and basically being unusable that really kills the modules.

For the record: I mostly agree, most of the stuff in the Carbon  
namespace is deprecated by Apple and hasn't been updated since OSX  
10.0. You even need the OS9 SDK headers to regenerate those modules.

That said, urllib uses a Carbon APIs to detect proxy settings on OSX  
(urllib.getproxies_internetconfig) and IMHO that functionality should  
be maintained. That functionality is no reason to keep all of the  
Carbon bindings, we could add a simple extention module provides just  
this functionality (just like _winreg wraps just enough of the windows  
registry APIs).

I'll ask on the pythonmac-sig if anyone is really attached to bits of  
Lib/plat-mac and Mac/Modules, if anyone is attached they can help  
merging the useful functionality in PyObjC.

BTW. I don't agree with the second sentence, PyObjC and the Mac- 
specific modules barely overlap. There are much better reasons for  
dropping the mac-specific modules: (1) they are for the most part  
unmaintained and (2) platform bindings need to be outside of the core  
distribution to allow adapting to a changing platform without being  
bound by the stability requirements of the stdlib.

Ronald

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