[Pythoncard-users] Re: Moving to python 2.4 problems

[normanwinn <nor...@on...>]

Thank you for the replies. I am not going to deal with each comment on 
the difficulty of upgrading in the Python world but give my further 
thoughts.

What I think is needed when upgrading is the offer to take the simple 
path. That is to get rid of the old and install the new. In the world of 
Basic (that is what we all want to replace, isn't it?) I would be 
offered such a choice. OK, I may not get offered an upgrade path from 
version 1 but would be from 2.3 to 2.4, say.

I know that it is a lot of tedious work to analyse each bit of user code 
to test where it will break under a new version and offer to convert. 
But if the FOSS world really believes that is can carry the average user 
then this work will need to be done. If that is not what people want to 
do then they should say so.

In the case of PythonCard itself it seemed reasonable to believe that 
if,  when I invoke Python, I get 2.4 then after running 'python setup.py 
install' in the PythonCard directory that all would be well. I looked in 
the 'tools\codeEditor' folder and there is no setup.py there.

It is possible that the problems are mine. In truth, the only time I 
have felt I really understood what is going on in computing is when I 
programmed in assembler (and in C), either on various computers or 
micro-controllers. There, one has to understand what is happening 
everywhere, in memory, in registers et al. I seem incapable of 'knowing' 
when I can't see the whole picture. No doubt it is laziness that has 
stopped me from getting the whole Python picture.

Once again, thank you for your replies, but I think I think I give this 
a miss for now. Life is too short,

Norman


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