Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Snapshots

[Ronald O. <ous...@ci...>]

On Monday, Oct 7, 2002, at 15:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Bill Bumgarner wrote:

> 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'll copy the branch code to the HEAD sometime this week. I'll change 
'Cocoa.Foundation' and 'Cocoa.AppKit' to 'Foundation' and 'AppKit' at 
the same
time.

>> 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.
Let's hope not for another 4 year ;-)

> 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.

I'm working on some (minor) new features and code cleanup, but those 
can wait until after the release.

Ronald