[Pythonmac-SIG] Zope py2app, some progress

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 11, 2005, at 3:15, Roger Binns wrote:

>> You don't need to touch Objective-C at all!  IOKit is plain old C.
>
> All the example code is in Objective C.  Quite simply there is
> far too steep a learning curve to get through these layers be
> it Objective C or pseudo objects in C plus mapping into Python
> land.

Uh, no it isn't.  A fair share of the IOKit examples are pure C or C++.

> It really is orders of magnitude easier working with win32all
> on Windows than trying to do the equivalent stuff on Mac.  Linux
> doesn't even enter since there is no way of doing things like
> help or some of the device stuff.

Yes, the help stuff is a pain in the ass, querying IOKit really isn't.

-bob