[issue18393] Gestalt() is deprecated on OSX 10.8, remove support?

[Marc-Andre Lemburg]

Marc-Andre Lemburg added the comment:

On 08.07.2013 13:55, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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> Do we follow the deprecation procedure for private functions as well?
> 
> The patch removes a private and undocumented extension, and removes a private function that uses that extension. There is no change in the public API.
> 
> Also, as I mentioned before the removed code is effectively dead because it will never be called on systems that aren't totally broken.

Oh, I was under the impression that the API is public. I just did a
grep: the _gestalt module is not documented and neither is the
gestalt function, so I guess we can speed up the deprecation procedure
or even drop it right away in 3.4 :-)

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