In a number of places code still revers
to "sys.platform == 'mac'" and that is
dead code because it refers to a platform
that is no longer supported (and hasn't been
supported for several releases).
Fixes issue #7908 for the trunk.
diff --git a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
index d8e8fd5..b3d9d54 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/file_util.py
@@ -133,18 +133,9 @@
if dry_run:
return (dst, 1)
- # On Mac OS, use the native file copy routine
- if os.name == 'mac':
- import macostools
- try:
- macostools.copy(src, dst, 0, preserve_times)
- except os.error, exc:
- raise DistutilsFileError(
- "could not copy '%s' to '%s': %s" % (src, dst, exc[-1]))
-
# If linking (hard or symbolic), use the appropriate system call
# (Unix only, of course, but that's the caller's responsibility)
- elif link == 'hard':
+ if link == 'hard':
if not (os.path.exists(dst) and os.path.samefile(src, dst)):
os.link(src, dst)
elif link == 'sym':