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

Jack Jansen jack@oratrix.nl
Fri, 11 May 2001 16:56:39 +0200

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.

Yes, now that the Mac stuff is integrated with the mainstream again this might be a good idea.

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?

Hmm, hmm, I'm unsure.

MacOS (<= 9) itself doesn't have chdir, because it doesn't believe in current directories (by design. Whether I agree with the design is a different matter:-).

Normally MacPython is built with a special unix-compatibility library, GUSI, which does provide these calls. However, it is still possible to build without GUSI, and actually in the process of porting MacPython to Carbon ("MacOSX in it's MacOS API model") I've used these compatibility routines again, until I finally got GUSI ported.

But its easy enough to cvs-remove them from the normal tree, to be revived when needed. What do people think?

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