[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-13 11:38, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
> 
> On 13 May, 2008, at 11:23, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> 
>> On 2008-05-12 04:10, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>>> I don't see gestalt on PEP 3108, but it is a Mac module.
>>
>> I'm not sure what to make of that comment. What are you suggesting ?
>>
>> gestalt is used on Macs to access system information. platform.py
>> uses and probably a lot of Mac apps as well.
> 
> PEP3108 proposes to drop all of Lib/plat-mac and Mac/Modules.
> 
> I'm definitely in favor of dropping the Carbon bindings, but I'm -0 on 
> dropping gestalt as it is a trivial module that's used by bits of the 
> standard library.

Thanks, I didn't realize that *all* of Lib/plat-mac was targeted
for removal.

I think that those modules which make sense on Mac OS X should
be moved to Lib/plat-darwin/, ie. gestalt.

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