Re. [Pythonmac-SIG] talkingpanda installer - PyObjC experience

[has]

Hey,

>>As always, I'm open to suggestions, requests, assistance, etc.
>
>You should use aeve instead of writing AEM.  It does all of the low 
>level stuff in a very strict and predictable way that's entirely 
>separate from application terminologies.  I'll probably be cleaning 
>stuff up and making a release in the next few weeks.

AEM's the easy bit (it's mostly done already) - it's getting all the 
appscript stuff that sits on top just right that's going to take the 
time. I'm mostly resolving the architecture as I go. Performance 
sumps in the application terminology system also need addressed and 
the custom terminology question needs resolved; probably going to be 
a redesign and rewrite in there. And I've still to figure out how to 
support handling of incoming events, probably requiring some 
preliminary work on the Python Scripting framework to see how it's 
all going to fit together.

I'll certainly take a look at your next aeve release, though unless 
it's much simplified from 0.4.0 I probably won't get very far; aside 
from really disliking its object specifier handling, 0.4.0's code is 
just too dense and complex for me to follow. e.g. AEM's codecs module 
is ~170LOC, most of which is one-line lambdas; I think aeve takes 
something like 700LOC and lots of classes to provide basic type 
conversions. (Though I'd be interested to hear why you decided to do 
it that way.)

Cheers,

has
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