Re: [Pythoncard-users] PythonCard status

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On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 14:51:04 +0000, XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX wrote:

> Maybe to start with, since the list is so quiet, we can do a poll and get an idea of numbers, 
> platforms/versions being used, a top 3 bug/request list and who can contribute? Any takers? I'll 
> start it off if nobody else does....first though I need to go around and work out how many 
> combinations of OS + Python + wxPython I have!

OK...if anything hits a problem and needs to confirm it isn't specific to their set-up, let me know and I'll try to duplicate it here. I'm using the following...

...to build Windows executables for customers that need to link to Visual C 6 era DLLS:

Windows NT 4 (in a VM) + Python 2.3.5 + wxPython 2.8.7.1

wheareas for general development and testing of applications I use one of the following:

Windows XP + Python 2.5 + wxPython 2.8.9.0
Windows XP + Python 2.6 + wxPython 2.8.9.1

The latter is on my laptop after Kevin asked if anyone was able to test PythonCard + Python 2.6. I also have the following setups which currently only get used when questions appear in these mailing lists:

OSX 10.4.11 (PPC) + Python 2.3.5 + wxPython 2.5.3.1
OSX 10.4.11 (PPC) + Python 2.5.1 + wxPython 2.8.9.1
OpenBSD 4.2 + Python 2.4 + wxPython 2.6.something

The issues I'm most concerned/interested about/in are:
1) wxPython - more things are breaking since wxPython 2.8.8.x was released, and I'd like to move more of my development environment to OSX but there are various wxPython-on-Mac problems at the moment; PythonCard on *nix seems to be even more hit-and-miss;
2) website/documentation - the bug/request/to-do lists haven't been updated for a while and people are always asking about documentation;
3) components - PythonCard deliberately doesn't include certain wxPython widgets due to complexity/time/effort; I've always though too that it would be nice to have a more up-to-date, cross-platform HTML component (the last time I checked there was the basic HTML 3 and IE components, and I think some work was being done on a Mozilla and WebKit widget in wxPython).

Since I've mentioned recently a few issues I've found or confirmed, it would probably be a good idea if I made the effort and added them to the PythonCard bugtracker. Not a huge contribution, but a start...

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