[Pythonmac-SIG] FAQ item

[Israel C. Evans]

That would be nice.. I would like to use project builder if it were 
more friendly with python and web dev stuff as well as more 
customizable.

I've been trying to get PyOXIDE to run, but it seems to fail with 2.3.  
Glenn has mentioned, that the new version of PyOXIDE should work 
correctly with 2.3, but it seems that I have other problems with 
pyObjC...
I've been going through the test files in the pyobjc site-package and 
nearly all of them seem to run ok, only a few are failing on me.

btw.. Is there an easy way to run all the tests automatically?  doing 
them by hand on the command line is getting to be a pain.



I can't wait for the day that software is fully and easily 
customizable.. Everything is a module you drop in for added 
functionality with completely tweakable UI that works on all imaginable 
platforms such as my desktop, my pda, my cereal bowl and 3rd nipple.

Well, maybe not the cereal bowl, that's just silly.



> PyOXIDE does syntax coloring (and the next version should work 
> correcty with 2.3), but it doesn't have the debugger that PythonIDE 
> does (yet - it will soon though).  It is, however, making extremely 
> good progress (last night I added a simple module help/documentation 
> window that uses pydoc) - it is really amazing how powerful Python + 
> PyObjC + Cocoa really is.

No kidding, you'd have to offer me some serious cookies to do any real 
GUI development in Carbon, win32api, etc. after getting used to Cocoa.  
It would be even nicer if Apple would expose more of Project Builder to 
the rest of us (i.e. let us make our own SCM plugins, debugger 
wrappers, etc), then we wouldn't need to have four or five python IDEs 
on the mac when most of us use Vim or Emacs anyway ;)

-bob

~Israel~