[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Friday, May 16, 2008, at 04:56PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:

>> 
>> Well, if we stick with the C version, it should just go into Modules.
>
>It was in Mac/Modules/ and I had a look yesterday at getting it
>back in there, but the Mac build system looked to complicated to
>touch (esp. since gestalt is built as part of the Carbon lib stuff).
>
>Someone else with more knowledge about the Mac build will have to
>give it a go.

Adding it to Modules shouldn't be to hard, the only special thing about
the Mac libraries is that they require and addition link argument: "-framework Carbon".

>
>>> 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.
>
>So lib-mac/ can basically stay gone or at least the modules
>still needed from there should be moved/revived to lib-darwin/.

I'm looking into this for python2.6 (although mostly to document
the alternatives). 

Ronald