diff --git a/pep-3108.txt b/pep-3108.txt index 48735e6f2..4b33e6404 100644 --- a/pep-3108.txt +++ b/pep-3108.txt @@ -368,11 +368,12 @@ for what the module is meant for. Mac-specific modules //////////////////// -Thanks to both Apple including Python with OS X and PyObjC_, -the included Mac modules in Python are obsolete. -Apple's Cocoa API will always be more up-to-date than Python's own -attempt at maintaining wrappers. Plus Apple can be expected to -include useful Mac-only modules that third-parties do not provide. +The Mac-specific modules are mostly unmaintained (e.g., the bgen +tool used to auto-generate many of the modules has never been +updated to support UCS-4). It is also not Python's place to maintain +such a large amount of OS-specific modules. For modules that provide +a small amount of focused functionality (e.g., _winreg), that can be +considered reasonable. * aepack