[Pythonmac-SIG] Communicating With Apple

[Bob Ippolito]

On Tuesday, Apr 15, 2003, at 17:54 America/New_York, Michael Hudson 
wrote:

> Nick Matsakis <matsakis@mit.edu> writes:
>
>> On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Jack Jansen wrote:
>>
>>> On the version Apple includes in Panther: the big issue here is 
>>> timing.
>>> ... Expect Panther to contain the Python that was current about half 
>>> a
>>> year before Panther goes final (note: the "half a year" is purely
>>> guesswork, but that's the ballpark). That probably means that it 
>>> will be
>>> 2.2.2:-(
>>
>> So, will this be a vanilla unix python, or Macpython 2.2.2? In other
>> words, would the Carbon/Mac modules be included?
>
> I *think* the diffuculty is that Python is considered to be part of
> Darwin, and so doesn't "see" the Mac side of things... hard to compile
> _Res.c when there's no Carbon.framework.
>
> I could be wrong, and would dearly like to be...

It's *possible* to backport these modules to whichever distribution of 
Python Apple decides to give us (considering I have them more or less 
all working on Apple's 2.2.0, I doubt it could be any worse)..   It'd 
just be convenient if batteries were included.

-bob