Re: [Libbt-devel] News on the Mac front - LibBT 1.03

[Peter S. <stu...@cd...>]

Wow, long mail. :)

On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 06:50:56AM -0700, Dakidd wrote:
> As of about an hour ago ago, I've got an error and warning free
> compile, and functionality of both btcheck.c and btlist.c on a
> PowerMac 7500 hopped up to a G4@350 running MacOS 9.1.

Congratualtions.


> Next step:
> Hacking the bejeezus out of the stuff that tries to talk to the
> 'net. CURL - FLUSH! Gonna use Apple URLAccess instead.

Why? Doesn't curl do OpenTransport? If not, are they interested in
having support for it? That's where it belongs anyway.


> I *THINK* I've managed to conditionalize my changes in such a way
> that Windows/*nix folks can compile my changed code by simply




> I don't grok Python (and to be blunt, I don't WANT to grok Python -
> it makes my brain itch)

I think Python is a really nice language and if you ever feel like
learning a new scripting language I recommend it wholeheartedly.

( My very first Python program was something similar to a monochrome
icon editor and it took me 20 minutes to make from start to finish,
GUI and all. :) I also taught Python in a high school programming
class last year and used some material from the OBP:
http://ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCS/python.php )

That said, I agree with you that Python isn't the best language to
use for IO- and CPU-intensive software. I'm on this list for that
particular reason.


> To make things worse, the interpreter has its own bugs and
> glitches, so that about half the time, I wonder whether the most
> recent problem I've encountered has been with BitTorrent or a
> problem with Python.

Is that MacPython-OS9?
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython/macpython-older.html

I'm sure the maintainer would love to hear about any problems you
encounter, especially since most Mac users probably switched over to
OS X and of the few that are still at OS 9, not very many are able or
willing to help fix open source software.


> (I think we're officially up to Tiger now - Or does that release
> next week? It's either just released, or releasing very soon)

Released about two weeks ago.


> MacOS X is based on *nix - a sub-flavor of NetBSD, if I recall
> rightly -

The Unix behind the Finder is called Darwin and can be downloaded
from Apple after registering online, but I don't recall which BSD it
is derived from.


//Peter