[issue7812] Call to gestalt('sysu') on OSX can lead to freeze in wxPython apps

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Removed the call to gestalt('sysu') in r78056 (trunk), r78057 (2.6), r78058 (3.x), r78060 (3.1) (Also changing the type to 'behavior' instead of 'crash' because this is not a crashing bug in python). -- resolution: -> fixed stage: -> committed/rej

[issue7812] Call to gestalt('sysu') on OSX can lead to freeze in wxPython apps

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Two short notes: 1) The call to gestalt('sysu') is basicly dead code and will be removed 2) Running the GUI runloop in a thread that is not the main thread is AFAIK not supported by Apple. I'm not 100% sure about the Carbon libraries, but in Cocoa the main

[issue7812] Call to gestalt('sysu') on OSX can lead to freeze in wxPython apps

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[issue7812] Call to gestalt('sysu') on OSX can lead to freeze in wxPython apps

New submission from Peter Hansen : In platform.mac_ver() there is a call to look up Mac version info, which results in a call to gestalt.gestalt('sysu'). This call is useless since, as documented in comments in the function the "sysu" option no longer exists, but the call was left in "as docu