[Pythonmac-SIG] "All I want..." [was: IDE feature requests]

[Steven D. Majewski]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Chris Barker wrote:
> 
> All I want is for the interpreter to work like it does on *nix!
> 

Well Chris: you could try it on MacOSX -- only problem is that
to run Tkinter, you have to log out and log in a console session
so you can start X11 --- which means you can't run you other Mac
apps. ( Or you can run MacPython in the "Classic" enviromnent --
which is pretty much the same as what you've got now. ) 

But, just to take this as an excuse for an update (if anyone is
interested) :  PyObjC is more-or-less working on MacOSX -- I can
load Foundation classes, but when I try to load the AppKit classes
to open and display a window, it gives a warning about not finding
a theme file just before it crashes with a bus error. ( The good
news is that on OSX, everything else keeps chugging away after
your bus error! )  

PyObjC development is in the process of being set up at SourceForge.

I haven't yet tried another attempt at building Python Carbon libs --
AppKit looked like it was closer to working, so that's been on the
shelf. ( Last attempt: I was able to compile some modules against
Universal Interfaces, but there were so many module interdependencies
that I'm going to have to build all or most of it to get modules
to link. 


Is anyone else out there taking a hack at it ? 


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