[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Brett Cannon]

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:35 AM, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:20 PM, Ronald Oussoren
> <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 14 May, 2008, at 22:07, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 13 May, 2008, at 20:45, Brett Cannon wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> At the moment, both directories and all files (including gestalt) have
>>>>> been removed, so whomever adds the file back can choose the directory.
>>>>> =)
>>>>
>>>> That won't be me, I barely have time to work on Python at the moment and
>>>> am
>>>> focussing all time I have on ensuring that Python2.6 will be the best
>>>> possible release on OSX.
>>>>
>>>> How did you change platform? That module uses gestalt to calculate the
>>>> osx
>>>> platform version and architecture.
>>>>
>>>
>>> It looks like Benjamin didn't change it. The unit tests still passed,
>>> though, possibly because platform.mac_ver() has a fallback if the
>>> gestalt import failed.
>>
>> I guess I'll have to find some time to add some unittests for
>> platform.mac_ver then ;-)
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I will create an issue to add back in gestalt. What about that little
>>> module for urllib to get proxy info? How is that coming along?
>>
>> That's already committed in the trunk, I guess it will be merged in py3k
>> later on.
>>
>
> I see the code using ctypes now. Assuming no one blocked the commit
> for 3.0, then yes, it will get backported. Although a quick check of
> svnmerge-integrated seems to suggest the commit was not backported
> during the last merge. Crap. I will have a look.

So it looks like no one has done a big merge in a little while. If the
code doesn't make it over in the next merge then it will have to be
merged explicitly.

-Brett