[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython 2.3 - Carbon only?

[Magladry, Stephen]

I guess I'll be a voice of dissention. I work for a game company writing
kids software. We try to keep our min specs as broad as possible. As a point
of reference, our current min specs is 7.5.5. In our up coming games we plan
to use Python. A requirement of 8.6 cuts into our potential market. Also,
8.6 is only about 2 and a half years old. 

True we can just stay with 2.2, but there may be some feature in 2.3 that we
may really want to use. At that time, we would be stuck between a rock
(wanting the new feature) and a hard place (Having our min spec jump up).

		-----Original Message-----
		From:	Jack Jansen [mailto:jack@oratrix.nl]
		Sent:	Thursday, January 03, 2002 2:47 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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