Re: [Pythoncard-users] Pythoncard and future developements

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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:06:59PM -0300, phil jones wrote:
> Glad to see someone picking this up if the original devs have given up.
> 
> What are your plans for PyCard?
> 
> cheers
> 
> phil

Happy to see that many people here want to see the project go ahead.

First of all, let me see one thing: My fork *won't* be a war declaration
to the original developers, nor any complain in the work already done by
those who have contributed to pycard before today.

I don't really have a precise plan for the future of this piece of code,
i fork it only cause i use it for some of my projects, and i need to see
that it can be supported for future python/wx releases, and maybe with
continue improvements.

Some thing that i want to see soon are:

 - the things that already exists in pycard and you can't use from
   resourceEditor/layoutEditor. They need to be implemented also in the editors.

 - Sizers. Thanks to Tweedly we now have those things. But hey, in the
   CVS of pythoncard on SF they aren't included!

 - There are other patches, things, suggestions in mailing list from
   when the latest release was done? Good, let we include in the SVN!

 - Is there anyone who want to contribute? Just ask for a SVN write
   enabled account, no more "i can't post my patch in mailing list cause
   attachments are blocked, and i don't know how to send it to
   developers for inclusion".



I have other ideas, but i want to be open-minded and let the community
choose what pythoncard need for the future.

Also, i primarly fork the project cause *I* need and i like to use it, so, 
of course my goal is to have what I need, in the hope that it can be usefull also
for others.

Other things that i wish to have in a (maybe long) future are:

 - Complete set of widgets from wxpython implemented, no more need to
   put raw wxpython code and mix it with the pycard one
 
 - maybe a restailing of the rsrc files, using xml/css templating?


But the important thing is, and remain, LET WE WAKE UP THE PROJECT!!!



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Franco Lanza
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