[Python-Dev] Mac hierarchy backwards (original) (raw)

Martin v. Loewis martin@loewis.home.cs.tu-berlin.de
Fri, 11 May 2001 16:41:33 +0200

First, thanks to Jack Jansen for integrating the Mac sources; this is a good thing.

It seems, however, that some of the directory structure is backwards: Mac/Demo should be Demo/Mac, and Mac/Tools should be Tools/Mac. There may be others of this kind.

I also wonder whether all these files are still needed, and meant to be distributed. E.g. I see chdir.c having the comment

/* Chdir for the Macintosh. Public domain by Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam (July 1987). Pathnames must be Macintosh paths, with colons as separators. */

Is it really the case that the Mac API hasn't grown a chdir call in 13 years?

Regards, Martin