[Python-Dev] Closing outdated Mac issues (original) (raw)

Daniel (ajax) Diniz ajaksu at gmail.com
Mon Feb 16 00:17:25 CET 2009

Looks like the MDS ate the copy sent to the list, here's it again:

Brett Cannon wrote:

As of Python 2.6 everything Mac-specific is deprecated and in 3.0 they are gone (you can read PEP 3108 for the details or just note that the Mac/Modules directory is gone in 3.0). They will still be around in 2.7, though, as these are Py3K deprecations.

OK, I've now read PEPs 3108 and 11, but still would like some ruling about RFEs in these stagnated Mac modules. Maybe PEP 4 could include a note about RFEs in deprecated modules?

Not sure what has been left in the Mac directory, but I think it is just random scripts (I never use the Mac-specific stuff so I don't know how useful some of them are to keep).

There are 40 C files, two headers and 69 python files in /Mac in trunk. The 2.6 (and 2.5.x) docs say development has stopped and that they'd be replaced in 2.5. So ISTM closing RFEs for these modules would be an improvement.

Honestly, fixing them is fine but since the modules are deprecated but still in existence in 2.x, but they are definitely nothing above a normal priority issue.

OK, I'll let the bug reports open. What about RFEs?

Daniel

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