Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Testsuite adventures

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On Monday, May 19, 2003, at 14:52 Europe/Amsterdam, Dinu Gherman wrote:

> Jack Jansen:
>
>> The easy answer is that FrameWork is a very old module (I think Guido 
>> even wrote the original himself, otherwise I did many many years 
>> ago), it's a minimal application framework. It has nothing to do with 
>> MacOSX "Framework"s.
>>
>> The better answer is that this confusion is going to occur more 
>> often. Do you have any suggestions as to how I could document this? 
>> In the documentation? The help string? Anywhere else?
>
> Well, we're talking about non-portable platform-specific modules and/or
> packages, don't we? Of course, "portable" and"specific" are not always
> clearly defined or might change for a given module (say, PyObjC, once
> Apple decides to distribute Cocoa on Intel boxes).

This was discussed on python-dev (moving platform-dependent modules 
into a platform-specific package, so you would have to do "import 
mac.FrameWork" or "import win.winsound") but rejected.

Note that all platforms have specific modules (see all the plat-* 
subdirectories of Lib), it's just that the Mac has very many of them.
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