[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 13 May, 2008, at 11:23, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:

> On 2008-05-12 04:10, Benjamin Peterson wrote:
>> I don't see gestalt on PEP 3108, but it is a Mac module.
>
> I'm not sure what to make of that comment. What are you suggesting ?
>
> gestalt is used on Macs to access system information. platform.py
> uses and probably a lot of Mac apps as well.

PEP3108 proposes to drop all of Lib/plat-mac and Mac/Modules.

I'm definitely in favor of dropping the Carbon bindings, but I'm -0 on  
dropping gestalt as it is a trivial module that's used by bits of the  
standard library.

Ronald