[stdlib-sig] gestalt, too?

[Brett Cannon]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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> On Friday, May 16, 2008, at 04:56PM, "M.-A. Lemburg" <mal at egenix.com> wrote:
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>>>
>>> Well, if we stick with the C version, it should just go into Modules.
>>
>>It was in Mac/Modules/ and I had a look yesterday at getting it
>>back in there, but the Mac build system looked to complicated to
>>touch (esp. since gestalt is built as part of the Carbon lib stuff).
>>
>>Someone else with more knowledge about the Mac build will have to
>>give it a go.
>
> Adding it to Modules shouldn't be to hard, the only special thing about
> the Mac libraries is that they require and addition link argument: "-framework Carbon".
>

Well, do we want to continue with this Modules sub-directory or should
it just end up in  the Mac directory itself, ala the PC directory and
its extension modules?

>>
>>>> This basically maps to the question whether Py3k will still support
>>>> Mac OS 9 or not.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Mac OS 9 support was removed at least a version ago.
>>
>>So lib-mac/ can basically stay gone or at least the modules
>>still needed from there should be moved/revived to lib-darwin/.
>
> I'm looking into this for python2.6 (although mostly to document
> the alternatives).

Benjamin has a patch up on Issue2854 to add the module back, but I
think it is for adding the code to Modules.

-Brett