[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[M.-A. Lemburg]

On 2008-05-13 20:45, Brett Cannon wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:09 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>>  On 13 May, 2008, at 11:58, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>  Why? Technically speaking "darwin" is yet another platform: the open-source
>> unixy bits of OSX. I'd prefer to keep plat-mac, but one that's much smaller
>> than the current tree.
> 
> At the moment, both directories and all files (including gestalt) have
> been removed, so whomever adds the file back can choose the directory.
> =)

Not really: the Lib/plat-<platform> names are taken from uname,
so they would have to go into a Lib/plat-darwin for Mac OS X.

I'm not sure, but could imaging that Mac OS 9 and below returned
'mac' for uname, which would then have been the reason to have
that directory.

Perhaps Jack could shed some light on this ?!

Thanks,
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