[Pythonmac-SIG] BuildApplet in next distro of MacPython?

[Jack Jansen]

On 29-dec-04, at 17:58, Kevin Walzer wrote:

> I'm curious about whether BuildApplet and PythonIDE will be included in
> the next iteration of MacPython, or whether these will be replaced by
> py2app and PyOxide. Although I know these are old technologies,
> especially BuildApplet, I'd like to request that they be retained, even
> if they're not updated or enhanced.

Just to give the party line on this:
- BuildApplet and PythonIDE will be with us as-is for the MacPython 2.4 
series of releases. They may move into some dark corner when 
replacements are available, but they will be available.
- Like you (and has, if I understand him correctly) I think the minimal 
functionality BuildApplet provides has a place in the grand scheme of 
things. Bob is 100% right in all of his arguments (it doesn't work, it 
can't work, it won't work anywhere else, it'll only work in a very 
limited number of cases, etc etc etc), but BuildApplet has been with us 
for 10 years now and proven it's worth. And what it does was copied 
from "save as applet" in Apple's Script Editor (along with all the 
warts) and that is still going strong after 15 years. So if I have a 
say in things there'll be something as simple as BuildApplet for a long 
time to come:-)
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Jack Jansen, <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl>, http://www.cwi.nl/~jack
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