Re: [Pyobjc-dev] Moving this list to python.org?

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

On 21 okt 2003, at 22:50, Jack Jansen wrote:

> Well, one of the things I'd still like to happen at some point in the 
> future
> is to integrate PyObjC into mainline Python. Mainly because that is the
> only way (I think) we can smuggle PyObjC (and thereby things like the 
> next
> generation IDE and PackMan and whatever, that are in all likelyhood 
> going
> to be written in PyObjC) into MacOSX 10.4, which is an important step 
> in
> my quest for World Domination.

I'd place a difference emphasis: I'd like to see a good set of GUI 
tools for Python in the next MacOS X and if that means moving PyObjC 
into mainline Python so be it.

>
> If this would mean separating out the existing MacPython stuff from the
> core Python tree (to integrate it with PyObjC into a new MacPython 
> subproject
> of Python) I think I'd be willing to do that.

Being able to build MacPython seperately from the rest of Python would 
be usefull in itself, especially when there is significant development: 
this would make it easier to build MacPython-for-Panther.

>
> The first hurdle to be taken for this to happen would be to get PyObjC
> under the right license, and preferably with the PSF as copyright 
> holder.
> Unfortunately this may also be the most difficult step, not only 
> getting
> all the current copyright holders to agree, but also some of the people
> who may have become lost in the mist of time...

I don't mind changing the license, or assigning copyright to the PSF. 
Find everyone that owns part of the copyright on PyObjC might be 
harder. The sources seem to indicate that Lele Gaifax is the only 
"sleeping" copyright holder, but I don't believe that is the whole 
truth.

Ronald