[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:51 AM, M.-A. Lemburg <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
> On 2008-05-14 22:07, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13 May, 2008, at 20:45, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> At the moment, both directories and all files (including gestalt) have
>>>> been removed, so whomever adds the file back can choose the directory.
>>>> =)
>>>
>>> That won't be me, I barely have time to work on Python at the moment and
>>> am
>>> focussing all time I have on ensuring that Python2.6 will be the best
>>> possible release on OSX.
>>>
>>> How did you change platform? That module uses gestalt to calculate the
>>> osx
>>> platform version and architecture.
>>>
>>
>> It looks like Benjamin didn't change it. The unit tests still passed,
>> though, possibly because platform.mac_ver() has a fallback if the
>> gestalt import failed.
>>
>> I will create an issue to add back in gestalt. What about that little
>> module for urllib to get proxy info? How is that coming along?
>
> Question: Are we going to leave gestalt in plat-mac/ or move it
> to plat-darwin/ ?
>

Well, if we stick with the C version, it should just go into Modules.

> This basically maps to the question whether Py3k will still support
> Mac OS 9 or not.
>

Mac OS 9 support was removed at least a version ago.

-Brett