[Pythonmac-SIG] Fwd: Apple Design Awards Update: Open Source Category

[Jack Jansen]

On vrijdag, februari 22, 2002, at 10:43 , Jack Jansen wrote:

> Folks,
> Apple have just added a category "best open source product" to 
> their yearly design awards.
> How about giving it a go and trying to win that award with Python?

This isn't going to happen. At least: not this year.

Why not, you may wonder? A number of reasons:
- the amount of help I got offered here on pythonmac-sig wasn't 
exactly staggering. It did trigger a couple of people to work on 
Cocoa-Python, but that was about it.
- The timing of Python 2.2.1 has been delayed. I was hoping to 
use Python 2.2.1 for the core, plus the CVS head (Python 2.3a0) 
for the Mac portion, plus the universal newlines patch (also not 
accepted yet) as the basis for this. But with no Python 2.2.1 
for another week this would mean basing a release for which we 
want a lot of visibility on a lot of unproven technology (all of 
it, in fact;-).
- There are still a lot of open ends: I never got a pointer the 
the Applescript Studio stuff, integrating the documentation with 
the IDE hasn't been done yet, there's no installer and I don't 
know yet how to make one, and many many more.

But: I'll try and continue on the path I'm on and get these 
worked out so we can do an all-singing-all-dancing MacOSX 
distribution for 2.3 (or maybe earlier). So: help is still 
requested in the areas listed above!
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