Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Snapshots

[Bill B. <bb...@co...>]

If you can do the CVS stuff, I can take care of pushing out a 
downloadable tarball.   From there, it will be easy to add a Fink 
package.   I will also revisit the necessary steps to make a build that 
works with the python shipped with OS X -- it works, I just can't 
remember how I did it. :-)

> I agree. The Cocoa prefix might also be confusing for Objective-C 
> programmers that want to try out python.
>
> I suppose we should change this before creating a new snapshot. 
> Opinions anyone?

Definitely a change to be made before a new snapshot is delivered.  
This will be the first major snapshot that encourages wide spread use 
in-- what?-- 4 or so years.   As such, whatever is pushed out the door 
will become the "standard" for a while.

I believe I also have an alternative way to start up the python 
interpreter that will work with the OS X distributed python.  This will 
have the added advantage of making it possible to build and distribute 
a pure Python Cocoa app that is reasonably sized -- i.e. does not 
contain the entire python distribution in the app wrapper-- and does 
not require anything on the system beyond the BSD package.

As this is just an example, there is no sense in delaying the rest of 
the release for this particular feature.

b.bum

On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 08:12 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 00:00 Europe/Amsterdam, Bill Bumgarner 
> wrote:
>>
>> Given that Ronald's work on the module basically supersedes all other 
>> trees, I believe that we should push out a new snapshot of pyobjc.
>
> I'm happy enough with the current state of PyObjC create a new 
> snapshot and to move the code back to CVS trunk.
>
> I can do the CVS work, but I probably do not have enough privileges to 
> actually add an archive to the downloadable files on sourceforge.
>
>
> On Monday, Sep 23, 2002, at 18:06 Europe/Amsterdam, Bill Bumgarner 
> wrote:
>> Comment:   Foundation should not really be a part of Cocoa.  I.e. I 
>> should be able to do "from Foundation import NSString" -- not "from 
>> Cocoa.Foundation import NSString".   There are platforms upon which 
>> Foundation exists, but Cocoa might not -- this is especially true as 
>> support for GnuStep is reintroduced (or, likely, rewritten).
>
> I agree. The Cocoa prefix might also be confusing for Objective-C 
> programmers that want to try out python.
>
> I suppose we should change this before creating a new snapshot. 
> Opinions anyone?
>
> Ronald