Message1479

While I agree with hsk0's arguments for his patch in http://jython.org/bugs/1648449 in principle, the platform specific path modules depend on things existing in os.stat that Jython doesn't provide and javapath works around.  Using the Python specific modules would provide a better experience if they worked properly, but they won't until they have the same workarounds that javapath has.  Getting a more functional Java specific path module today is better than waiting for a completely functional platform specific path implementation to show up at some unknown point in the future.

That's the long way of saying the patch was applied in r3225.