[Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:33 PM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> On Feb 8, 2006, at 7:24 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:
>
>>> I am one of those too, of course, but I do know a lot of Mac users
>>> who spend most of their time in applications like Photoshop,
>>> Dreamweaver, BBEdit, etc. and rarely venture towards the Terminal.
>>> Not quite the same audience, but at least some of them would be
>>> potential Python users by way of appscript or web development tools.
>>
>> Sure, that make perfect sense.
>>
>>>> But my point was simply that it seems hard to be a Mac user these
>>>> days
>>>> without some basic use of the Terminal.
>>>
>>> That's not true at all.
>>
>> OK, I'm probably the wrong person to assess that.
>>
>> So it seems that a old Unix-style Python program which reads from
>> stdin (or a file or a tty) and writes to stdout would be difficult to
>> explain to someone who has never used a command line.  And there's
>> essentially no way to get Idle started without using a command line.
>
> What about an app bundle that just starts IDLE?

But if we're going to have them download something, why not a better  
suite of tools to begin with?

-bob