[Pythonmac-SIG] Bob Ippolito's synopsis of Python(s) on OS X

[Zachery Bir]

On Mar 31, 2004, at 5:31 PM, Nick Bastin wrote:

> Bashing cross-platform toolkits, as Bob did in his session, just 
> damages the chance that applications will come to the mac at all.

Bull. It damages the chance that also ran, "Because it's easier than 
thinking about it" apps will do well in the Mac market. Applications 
that are ported to the Mac without taking into account the idioms of 
the platform will stand out like old, weird uncle Willy, whose left eye 
is just a shade off kilter, and gives everyone the impression that he 
might just wet himself for fun at Thanksgiving dinner.

> I find it much more likely that an application will not be ported to 
> the mac all than the GUI be rehosted on top of Cocoa, if you keep 
> telling application developers that mac users will only accept the One 
> True Way(tm) of Cocoa, which is just bunk.

All I'm saying is that new projects will prosper in the Mac market 
insofar as they consider the idioms of the platform and don't just slap 
a cross-platform UI on it at last moment. IFF the Mac market is 
important to them at all, they'll seriously consider using a native 
toolkit on top of abstracted data models.

Zac
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