[Pythoncard-users] Boa as an IDE for PythonCard?

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

A couple of weeks ago I contacted Riaan Booysen about his IDE for wxPython
called Boa. I was interested in using his frame designer and property editor
code in PythonCard, since those parts of the Boa UI seemed to work pretty
well, but I hadn't looked at his code yet.

Anyway, to make a long story short, I ended up writing my own code. The
issue we left unresolved was whether Boa should support editing PythonCard
apps, in particular the .rsrc.py files, but it could also act as a full IDE
for PythonCard. Suffice it to say that adding this support is non-trivial
and Riaan won't be doing it, someone on the PythonCard team would have to
pursue it.

Another issue is that Riaan would need to grant use to us with his modifed
GPL, or MPL as he calls it. From an earlier email:

Kevin: Anyway, I would like to give it a shot, but I will not be locked into
the GPL.

Riaan: That's why I mentioned the MPL, if there was some sort of
collaboration, I could relicense those core Boa files under the MPL
which means those core files are 'like' GPL files (you have the
make changes to those files available for free) but with the MPL
you can integrate very easily to the core with code from any license.
It only 'infects' things in the core. Not things that just use or
integrate with it.

Boa is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/boa-constructor/

What I would like to know is whether anyone interested in PythonCard is
using Boa or whether you think you would be interested in an IDE environment
like Boa that integrates Zope support, cvs, editing, a shell, and other
features [Now is the time for you to speak up Patrick  ;-)]

ka