Re: [Boa Constr] ANN: Boa Constructor 0.1.0-alpha

[Bell J. <jbe...@ya...>]

Excellent!!!  I've on;y recently looked seriously at
Boa and was about to give up due to the 2.3.2 issue! 
This has come Just in Time for me.

A couple of minor immediate issues:

(1) Obviously you're packaging from a Microsoft
platform.  There is a minor problem in that text files
are not marked as such in the zip-file and thus unzip
-a doesn't clean up the <CRLF> -> <LF> transformation
when loading into Linux.  This leads to a peculiar
startup problem (something like : not found).

(2) Some files still have "#!/bin/env python" in their
startup.  the path to "env" should be "/usr/bin" for
all 3 linuxes I've got and HP-UX and Solaris, so
probably pretty much any *IX.

(3) Some files have "#! /usr/bin..."  The space after
the "!" will throw some unices.

(4) I don't know if you've seen this, but on Linux/GTK
exiting Boa without saving anything causes a core
dump.

As I say they're pretty minor problems, but hey may as
well get everything clean for 1.0!

Now that I've got something operational I'll see what
I can build over the next few days and report any
broken bits I find.

Once again, it's great to see the project back on the
road again.

John Bell

--- Riaan Booysen <riaan@e.co.za> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm proud to at last announce the alpha version of
> Boa Constructor!
> 
> Here are the highlights:
> 
> * Compatible with and now requires wxPython 2.3.2. 
> * Files can now be opened, edited and saved over any
> supported transport
>   * Currently supported: Filesystem, FTP, WebDAV,
> SSH, Zope
> * Explorer improvements
>   * Clipboard improved, can copy/paste between any
> transports
>   * Preferences are now be maintained in the
> Explorer and the Inspector.
>      * Can be stored in HOME directory
>      * Key definitions editable
>      * Style editor for user defined source code
> styles, colours and
> fonts.
> * Pluggable components and transports
>   * New components, filetypes and transports can be
> added by putting the
>     module in the Plug-ins directory. Examples
> provided.
> * Support for opening html, xml, text, config and
> c++ files
> * Extensive Zope support added
> * Complete integrated help for Boa, Python, wxPython
> and CVS.
> * All image transparency issues resolved (using PNGs
> for everything)
> * Improved code completion, call tips and code
> browsing.
> * Syntax checking for Python source
> * New controls available from the Palette.
> * More properties added for standard controls
> * Resource usage under Win9x improved
> * Stability and speed improvements
> * Code generation is safer with rollback on errors
> and warnings for 
>   unexpected/incomplete code.
> * Improved integration between your code and
> generated code
> 
> The files are available from:
> 
>
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1909&release_id=72445
> 
> boa-constructor-0.1.0-alpha.src.zip   : source
> archive (any platform)
> boa-constructor-0.1.0-alpha.win32.exe : distutils
> installer   (win32)
> boa-constructor-0.1.0-alpha.docs.zip  :
> documentation
> 
> Enjoy!
> -- 
> Riaan Booysen
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