[Pythonmac-SIG] Development Matrix (or "sometimes there's just too many choices...")

[Chris Barker]

On Tuesday, February 18, 2003, at 05:29 PM, W.T. Bridgman wrote:

> I've explored what's on the Mac sites and (casually) follow this group 
> traffic and now find myself wondering just what combinations of python 
> (MacPython, Unix Python), window environments (X11, Aqua, and now 
> Apple X11) and GUIs (Tkinter, wxPython) play well together (twelve 
> possible combinations?  which are not viable?).  Then there's the 
> installation options - standard Unix (/usr/local/), Framework, and 
> Fink bringing the count up to 36.  I assume that the merging of 
> MacPython and Unix Python (still on for v2.3?) will drop this count by 
> half.

And the count should drop a lot more as things settle down. As I 
understand it, when Python 2.3 is out, we should have ONE python for 
OS-X that can do it all: unix scripting, Carbon development, cocoa 
development, etc. Then there won't be a need for all those different 
versions, and we can all focus on getting all the extensions we want to 
work right. wxPython and aquaTK are in progress, and there are plenty 
of other folks that want PIL, Numeric, NumArray, mxTools, VTK, 
PyOpenGL, SciPy, etc, etc. to work. Jack is even putting together a 
binary package system so that these can all be easy to install.

If you are working on something that doesn't have to be production 
quality for another 5 months or so, I'd go with 2.3a, and work on 
getting the pieces you want working. You'll have help from this group.

-Chris


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