[Pythonmac-SIG] findertools.launch reports "no eligible process"

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Thursday, June 14, 2007, at 06:57PM, "Christopher Barker" <Chris.Barker at noaa.gov> wrote:
>has wrote:
>> In the longer term, EasyDialogs definitely needs to be substantially  
>> rewritten
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>shouldn't EasyDialogs be re-written to use Cocoa? Or would that require 
>the full pyObjC package -- speaking of which is that ever going to be 
>part of the 'standard" MacPython package?

That's unlikely, I have no plans for trying to get pyobjc in the stdlib. Having it outside of the stdlib has one pretty major advantage: not being restricted by the Python release cycle and hence having the possibility of closely tracking whatever Apple is doing. In a hypothetical world where pyobjc is part of the stdlib you'd have to wait until Python 2.6 before getting access to the frameworks that Apple will introduce in Leopard.

It might be useful to make MacPython a kitchensink distribution of Python for Mac OSX instead of just the standard library, but that would require some people that want to invest into building this. It should also be more than an .mpkg that installs Python, PyObjC, appscript, wxPython and whatever else is deemed useful, a MacPython that's separate from the standard python.org distribution should strive for being the best possible Python environment for the Mac (including a proper IDE, software management tools, ...). 

Building such a beast is certainly possible, but takes a lot of developer time and is hence rather unlikely to happen unless someone has too much money and wants to fund this :-)


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>I suppose it could use wxPython instead -- Apple has delivered wxPython 
>by default in the past -- I don't know if they are committed to doing so 
>in the future.

I have no idea what Apple plans to do, but if you're using Apple's build of Python you should consider PyObjC as well (wink, wink).

Ronald

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