Proposal to enhance MacPython preferences:
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- Motivation : when embedding MacPython in MacCvs, I 
realized the way MacPython is storing the preferences 
in a solid Mac handle is a serious problem for MacCvs 
in order to use several versions of MacPython, and 
still being able to control the MacPython resources.

- The patch : it is not complete, it is *only* a 
proposal for an under mechanism which stores 
individually "Persistent" values, or values which have 
the ability to be retained/loaded/saved accross 
several MacPython sessions.

- The C side: example: defining a new persistent value 
is as simple as:

static CPersistentInt version("version", 
POPT_VERSION_CURRENT);

The value gets automatically linked to all the other 
persistent values so they can be loaded and stored all 
together. There are a set of pre-defined types of 
persistent values (int, bool, string)

- The Python side : I have included a sample 
testpersistent.py which illustrates how the script can 
access, load, store the values.

Note : the C++ implementation is just for convenience 
and RTTI is not used.

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Alexandre,
I think that I won't fix this. OS9-based MacPython is quickly becoming a thing of the past, especially for developers (and 99% of the users of MacCVS will be developers, methinks).

If you disagree reopen the report and convince me:-)