Re: [Visualpython-users] Cocoa-based VPython desperately needed on the Mac

[Hugh F. <hug...@an...>]

> From: Bruce Sherwood <bas...@nc...>
> 
> If you have the necessary expertise to contribute to finding a way to
> base VPython on Cocoa, please let me know!

Redesigning Visual Python around a Qt core would give cross-platform 
with native look and feel for Macintosh and MS Windows. AFAIK Trolltech 
have rewritten a good chunk of Qt to run on Cocoa for the same reason of 
the transition to 64 bit.

It wouldn't be as smooth for Linux (although Qt apps run perfectly well 
under GNOME) but I don't believe native look & feel and tight desktop 
integration is quite so important on Linux.

Using Qt is banned by the current iPhone/iPad SDK license agreement, but 
Python interpreters were already banned so we'd be no worse off.

-- 
	Hugh Fisher
	CECS, ANU