Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Best way...??

[Jack J. <Jac...@cw...>]

On maandag, mei 12, 2003, at 22:45 Europe/Amsterdam, Gary Robinson 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> In the tutorial.html file, the process of creating a PyObjC app without
> Project Builder is described.
>
> In the TableModel2 example, the readme.txt file describes how to use 
> Project
> Builder, starting with creating a new "Cocoa Application" in PB.
>
> In Project Builder itself, there is a choice to create a Cocoa-Python
> application under "New...". This seems to result in a substantially
> different setup than the TableModel2 example does.
>
> Is there any technique that is "safest" in terms of using well-tested 
> code
> out of the above three? Is there a worst technique?
>
> I'd kind of like to use PB, but it's much more important to me to use
> well-tested, highly maintained code.

The choice of PB or non-PB development probably depends on two things:
1. What are you familiar with, and
2. Where is your application going to go.

If you come from an ObjC background PB is probably the best choice, if 
you come from a pure Python background non-PB is better. But if your 
app is eventually going to be rewritten in ObjC (completely or 
partially) then PB is best. And if you use PyObjC only as a quick GUI 
layer around a complex Python package that's going to be cross-platform 
(using another toolkit on non-Mac systems) then non-PB is best.

All that said, it might be a good idea to duplicate the tutorial and 
explain how to get the same end result using PB. I would be very 
interested in following that tutorial:-).

Any takers?
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