Re: [Visualpython-users] Running Visual on Linux respectively Windows is not the same

[Bruce S. <ba...@an...>]

--On Thursday, January 18, 2001 10:37 AM +0100 Nils Wagner 
<nw...@is...> wrote:

> Please can you expand on the differences between Visual on Linux and
> Visual on Windows.
> I use Python2.0 and the latest development version of Vpython on Linux.

With respect to this question, what is on the VPython web site 
(http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual) is this:

Windows: A package to add to regular Windows Python 2.0. This is our most 
up-to-date package.

Linux: Packages for Linux Python 1.5. This doesn't include some important 
developments in the Visual module and in graph.py (for graphing functions). 
In particular, the label object is not implemented, so some recent demos 
don't work.

However, Ari Heitner has recently implemented the label object on Linux 
Python 2.0 and is also working on pulling together all the related pieces 
(such as Numeric, upon which the Visual module depends). He hopes to have a 
complete coherent package very soon that will bring the Visual module up to 
date with the Windows version.

Ari, please comment if I have misrepresented the issues!

Bruce Sherwood

P.S. For completeness, here is the situation on the Mac: The package on the 
VPython web site is up to date in terms of Visual syntax (for example, it 
includes the label object, and all the standard demos work). It does not 
include the nice version of Idle available in our Windows package. David 
Andersen is working on the Idle problem.