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

[Steven D. A. <st...@ne...>]

Hi Kevin,

On Tuesday, September 04, 2001, at 2:56:12 PM, you wrote:

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

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

So this sounds much like the LGPL.  The core itself is open-source and
must remain so -- any modifications must be released.  But projects
that are built with it would not be GPL or MPL, nor would tools that
merely work with it or link it.  Is that the basic idea?

On another note, I don't really like Riann's approach of using Python
code itself to generate interfaces.  It seems a lot more general to
use some flavor of XML to describe interfaces, and sharply distinguish
this from the user code.  This kind of separation/abstraction allows
one to easily modify the way interface elements work in one's code
without worrying about the IDE overwriting one's changes or making
other undesirable changes.  To put the policy in a sentence: anything
that is automatically generated by the IDE should not be modified by
the user (this would no doubt include the final code/binary as well as
interface template files).

Has anyone else experienced this kind of issue with Boa (or maybe
found a workaround that obviates it as a problem)?

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