Re: [Pyobjc-dev] status of PyObjC ?

[Ronald O. <ron...@ma...>]

On 18 Feb, 2009, at 10:12, Orestis Markou wrote:

> The website doesn't reflect reality, I'm afraid.
>
> PyObjC is _bundled_ with Leopard, so if you haven't installed any
> other Python you should be able to just import objc or Foundation and
> things should work as expected.
>
> Development still goes on, from the commits I've seen Ronald is aiming
> to have full test coverage of all the major frameworks for 10.5. I
> think 10.4 support is somewhere there, but I'm not sure. I've no idea
> about Python 3.0, but I would expect it to be far away for now.

My current plan is to have test coverage for the API bindings for the  
frameworks in 10.5 before doing the next release. The reason for  
wanting to have those is that I've run into a number of occassions  
where the API bindings worked during beta releases and stopped working  
afterwards without anyone noticing. Having unittests ensures that this  
won't happen again in the future, and furthermore ensures that the  
bridge is actually capable of wrapping all these API's.

As you might expect this is rather boring work, which explains the  
rather slow progress. I'm getting closer to my goal though.

To be honest, a 10.4 port does not have a high priority at the moment.  
That doesn't mean PyObjC won't work on 10.4, last time I checked  
pyobjc-core did compile on 10.4 and actually passed it's tests there.

Support for Python 3.x is on my todo list but is non-trivial to  
achieve. PyObjC contains a large amount of pretty low-level C code,  
getting the details w.r.t. to the changes in 3.0 right is not easy.  I  
have looked into a Python 3.x port and this should be fairly easy, but  
it's still a couple of days work. I'm not planning to work on that  
before the next release of PyObjC, that's way too long overdue as it is.

Ronald
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> On 18 Feb 2009, at 04:57, Darren Minifie wrote:
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>> Hi Everyone
>>
>> I was thinking of giving PyObjC another go in a future project I'm
>> working on.  I noticed from the website that things are starting to
>> get a bit dated.  Is Leopard 10.5 supported?  How about plans for
>> Python 3.0?  Thanks for an update.
>>
>> Darren
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