[Edu-sig] The best way to predict the future...

[Arthur]

...is to predict the future.

Which  I think I did fairly well, when I began - some 5 years ago - 
talking about the ideas of Alan Kay as extremely relevant to the 
business of edu-sig.

What I seem to have gotten wrong is the fact that giving forum to those 
ideas; praise, implicit and explicit of those ideas; encouragement to 
the Python community to embrace those ideas is what is relevant.  
Critique of those ideas, encouragement of the Python community to resist 
them and to work to create a viable alternative to them  is what is  not.

My bad.

My effort at creating ,  informed by an alternative world view, is 
progressing.  Many of the suggestions that Andre had given me when I 
asked for some feedback here earlier have been implemented.  Lot's of 
hard work.  Including extending/abusing the framework of the pudge 
automated documentation generation tool to, I think, pretty good effect.

See http://pudge.lesscode.org/

for the tool:

and

http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/docs/module-base.geometry_real.html

for example output.

I have worked out one thing that was bothering me, i.e. lack of control 
on the ordering of modules in index documentation and such, but have
not put up the new output as of yet.

Beyond the auto-generated docs, a Overview document has been written 
that is an effort to express PyGeo's vision of itself.

http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/docs/Overview.html

as well as a document in progress on approaching the PyGeo application 
code as a readable document, geared toward those without prior 
experience in undertaking such an effort.

http://pygeo.sourceforge.net/docs/codeanatomy.html

PyGeo is what it is, but it is at this point hard to take seriously not 
taking it seriously.

Andre's feedback had in fact been very helpful to me in getting to this 
stage.  I am still a little bit away from a new release and an announcement.

Any feedback in the meantime is relevant and welcome.

Art