[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 13 May, 2008, at 23:00, Brett Cannon wrote:

> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:25 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com 
> > wrote:
>>
>> On 13 May, 2008, at 13:03, Leonardo Santagada wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On 13/05/2008, at 07:30, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
>>>
>>>> Either way, I'm -1 on removing the gestalt API, since it's needed
>>>> by platform.py and there doesn't appear to be an alternative for  
>>>> getting
>>>> at certain config information on Mac OS (but don't really care  
>>>> whether
>>>> it's implemented as C module or using ctypes ;-).
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> What happened to the idea of making it a ctypes module?
>>>
>>
>> AFAIK there is are no such plans.
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'm very much in favor to all non performance critical parts of  
>>> python be
>> in a more portable and easier to maintain code.
>>>
>>
>> I'm -1 on rewriting it as a ctypes module. The existing C  
>> implementation
>> works just fine, rewriting it in Python is just more work without  
>> clear
>> advantages.
>>
>
> Then why did you attach a ctypes implementation two days ago?

To show that adding it would be easy. That version is completely  
untested an not compatible with the C version, fixing those issues  
takes time and I have no intention to do those changes.

Ronald