Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-04-02 Thread Kevin Walzer
has wrote: > On 2 Apr 2007, at 09:21, Jack Jansen wrote: > > Yeah, cleaning up APIs and internals and writing good user docs is > well and truly teh suk as jobs go. Without it though, I think you'll > have a very tough time convincing others to help share the load. I'm willing to contribut

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-04-02 Thread has
On 2 Apr 2007, at 09:21, Jack Jansen wrote: >> Furthermore, this stumbling block has a stumbling block of its own: >> bgen. There's very few folk around who understand it at all, and no >> documentation (AFAIK) for anyone else to make sense of it. > > I'm committed to bgen, for at least the next c

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-04-02 Thread Jack Jansen
On 31-Mar-2007, at 19:58 , has wrote: Furthermore, this stumbling block has a stumbling block of its own: bgen. There's very few folk around who understand it at all, and no documentation (AFAIK) for anyone else to make sense of it. Until there's some sort of decision made about bgen's future

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-31 Thread has
Ronald Oussoren wrote: > One thing we (Jack and I) talked about is moving at least the > Carbon modules to its own separate project instead of being part of > the standard library. The most important reason for this is that > the Carbon modules and Python itself should be on a different >

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-31 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 31 Mar, 2007, at 1:49, Jack Jansen wrote: On 30-Mar-2007, at 22:55 , Kevin Walzer wrote: Looking at the "Macintosh Library" documentation that ships with 2.5, I see a lot of outdated stuff: references to the old PythonIDE, PackageManager, and so on. What is the process for updating the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-31 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 31 Mar, 2007, at 5:41, Dethe Elza wrote: > On 30-Mar-07, at 4:49 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: > >> Carbon itself should be fine. It is indeed undocumented within the >> Python documentation, but the transformation from the official >> Apple C documentation is pretty clear (I think). > > Is there any

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-31 Thread has
Jack Jansen wrote: > On 30-Mar-2007, at 22:55 , Kevin Walzer wrote: > >> Looking at the "Macintosh Library" documentation that ships with >> 2.5, I >> see a lot of outdated stuff: references to the old PythonIDE, >> PackageManager, and so on. What is the process for updating these >> docs, >>

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-30 Thread Dethe Elza
On 30-Mar-07, at 4:49 PM, Jack Jansen wrote: > Carbon itself should be fine. It is indeed undocumented within the > Python documentation, but the transformation from the official > Apple C documentation is pretty clear (I think). Is there anywhere that this mapping is specified? I've always

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-30 Thread Jack Jansen
On 30-Mar-2007, at 22:55 , Kevin Walzer wrote: Looking at the "Macintosh Library" documentation that ships with 2.5, I see a lot of outdated stuff: references to the old PythonIDE, PackageManager, and so on. What is the process for updating these docs, submitting a bug report, etc.? Also

[Pythonmac-SIG] Macintosh modules/Carbon/documentation

2007-03-30 Thread Kevin Walzer
Looking at the "Macintosh Library" documentation that ships with 2.5, I see a lot of outdated stuff: references to the old PythonIDE, PackageManager, and so on. What is the process for updating these docs, submitting a bug report, etc.? Also, there appears to be a lot of modules in the "Macinto