[issue2715] Remove carbon-specific code from binhex

[Brett Cannon]

Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> added the comment:

On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:36 AM, Ronald Oussoren <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
>
>  Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> added the comment:
>
>  Have you read that code?

Not in detail, no.

> The Carbon-specific code in there is needed to
>  make the module behave correctly in OSX: the Carbon specific code is used
>  to get and set some Mac-specific file attributes.
>
>  It should be easy enough to move that code into a small C extensions
>  though, that way binhex will no longer depent on the Carbon python
>  package.

OK.

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