[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 10, 2006, at 7:24 AM, gandreas at gandreas.com wrote:

>
> On Feb 9, 2006, at 1:32 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
>> If I'm a newbie, I'm going to go, "Huh?", then "shrug," and move  
>> on to
>> Realbasic. There needs to be something double-clickable there for a
>> newbie to use. PythonIDE, though it had many flaws, was useful this
>> way.
>>  BTW, what happened to PyOXIDE? It had major bugs, but was
>> promising as
>> a "next-generation" basic IDE for Python development on the Mac.
>
>
> PyOXIDE isn't dead - it's just sleeping.
>
> Seriously, there are several issues:
>
> 1) Lack of available time
> 2) It mostly does everything _I_ need (I actually use it on a fairly
> regular basis, and I have no burning need to add new features)
> 3) It needs to basically be re-written - it started as an editor with
> python embedded in it (i.e., use the python.framework and the various
> python embedding routines).  Unfortunately, with 2.4 and the
> corresponding PyObjC, that just plain doesn't work well - PyObjC
> pretty much requires the thing to be a PyObjC-based application
> ("application embedded in python"), instead of an application
> embedding python.

That's not true, and I've told you the correct way to fix that...   
That's why py2app can build plugins.

-bob