[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3 - Carbon only?

[Schollnick, Benjamin]

Jack,

	Carbon Only is probably (??) a good thing.

	The only reason I can think of not being carbonized, is
	to allow older hardware / OSes run the software...
	But as you mentioned Python 2.2 is the last release
	allowed for Mac OS 8.1.  

	Since your placing that restriction, then it's probably
	a good time to "sneak" this one in as well...

	Honestly, the Tkinter question is my only hesitation...
	Tkinter has to be available, since that's the "native"
	GUI platform for Python.

	(Native meaning it comes with the software, and it's
	demoed with it.)

	
		- Benjamin

-----Original Message-----
From: Jack Jansen [mailto:jack@oratrix.nl]
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 5:47 PM
To: pythonmac-sig@python.org
Subject: [Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3 - Carbon only?


Folks,
I'm toying with the idea of making MacPython 2.3 Carbon-only, as this
would save a lot of development effort. And there are a lot of things
I'd like to do, for one thing I would like all our MacPython goodies
to run natively in MachoPython by the time 2.3 is released.

There are two drawbacks to this plan:
1. MacPython wouldn't run on 8.5 anymore (for 8.1 MacPython 2.2 is the
last release anyway), and on 8.6 you would need to manually install
CarbonLib.
2. Tkinter is going to be a problem, but I think it is a solvable
problem (it is possible to load InterfaceLib-based code into a
CarbonLib-based main program).

What do people think?
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