[Visualpython-users] Macintosh update; zip files

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

At http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual the Macintosh version is now 
up to date with the Windows version, except for there being no integrated 
IDLE and some speed issues. Work is proceeding on these issues.

The VPython download adds to Mac Python 2.0 up-to-date demo programs and an 
up-to-date documentation package, with integrated Python and Visual 
documentation. Mac Python 2.0 is a somewhat different package than Windows 
Python 2.0. The Mac version does not include Python documentation but does 
include Numeric. The Windows version has the Python documentation but does 
not include Numeric. For this reason the VPython add-on is different for 
the two platforms.

I am again indebted to Ihor Rokach for his helpful suggestion on how to 
automate the creation of zip files. It would indeed be much better to have 
the zip files for the individual Windows components, especially to ease 
download problems, so I'll try to put this together. (I will continue to 
use an installer, Inno Setup, to make the full VPython package, to address 
the problems we've found with newcomers failing to put Visual in the right 
place.)

Bruce Sherwood