Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Moving this list to python.org?

[Bob I. <bo...@re...>]

On Oct 21, 2003, at 4:50 PM, Jack Jansen wrote:

> Well, one of the things I'd still like to happen at some point in the 
> future
> is to integrate PyObjC into mainline Python. Mainly because that is the
> only way (I think) we can smuggle PyObjC (and thereby things like the 
> next
> generation IDE and PackMan and whatever, that are in all likelyhood 
> going
> to be written in PyObjC) into MacOSX 10.4, which is an important step 
> in
> my quest for World Domination.
>
> If this would mean separating out the existing MacPython stuff from the
> core Python tree (to integrate it with PyObjC into a new MacPython 
> subproject
> of Python) I think I'd be willing to do that.
>
> The first hurdle to be taken for this to happen would be to get PyObjC
> under the right license, and preferably with the PSF as copyright 
> holder.
> Unfortunately this may also be the most difficult step, not only 
> getting
> all the current copyright holders to agree, but also some of the people
> who may have become lost in the mist of time...

I'm not sure if it's necessarily the Only Way, because Apple did 
include some non-mainline Python stuff in 10.3 (namely, their 
CoreGraphics wrapper).  If we had proper communication channels to 
Apple, it wouldn't be impossible to get them to include PyObjC and 
whatever else built alongside Python, even if they weren't in the 
mainline distribution.  They also did this with Perl (their ObjC 
bridge, and a few other things I believe) way sooner.

-bob