[Pythonmac-SIG] newbie question re W/Framework tools under MacPython

[Jack Jansen]

Recently, "Chris Ryland" <cpr@emsoftware.com> said:
> I'm new to the Python-Mac mailing list, and fairly new to Python, but am
> contemplating using it for some short-term real shippable data-publishing
> products under MacOS Classic and X (and also Win32).
> 
> My basic question is: What is the concensus (if there is one) about using
> the W/Framework tools for creating native Mac apps? Is it a dead end? Even
> if so, is it a *reliable* dead end? ;-)

W and Framework are used by the IDE, so it's definitely not a dead
end. The API might change when we move to Carbon Events, though,
especially the event-handling-override and event-routing code of
Framework.

I'd be interested to know how many people use this, to see how
important backwards compatibility is (which may ultimately come in the
form of two Framework versions, of which one continues to use
old-style events).
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