Re: [Visualpython-users] Advice: iMac

[Bruce S. <bas...@un...>]

I don't see any way to go forward with a version for OS9, which moreover has
always been crippled because Idle doesn't work. Rather you have to edit a
file with some editor of your choice, save the file, then drag that file
onto the Python interpreter, thus losing the slick one-button edit/run cycle
that Idle offers. It would take a lot of work by someone very knowledgeable
to get Idle to work on OS9, mainly due (as I understand it) to threading
issues. As a result of all this, and the rapid change of Macs from OS9 to
OSX, we ourselves will not upgrade the OS9 version, though the old version
will of course continue to be available at vpython.org. As Johathan says, if
someone else wants to maintain OS9, great.

Bruce Sherwood

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Brandmeyer" <jbr...@ea...>
To: "Gary Pajer" <pa...@in...>
Cc: <Vis...@li...>; "Bruce Sherwood"
<bas...@un...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2003 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Visualpython-users] Advice: iMac


> On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 22:29, Gary Pajer wrote:
> > THanks.  refinement to the question:  some (all?) of the Macs in the
> > classrooms are OS9.
> > Is visual running in OS9?  I'm nervous about this.
> > -g
>
> We had considered deprecating that platform.  There is an installer from
> the middle of last year on vpython.org, but it doesn't have any of the
> recent bugfixes.  If someone doesn't volonteer to maintain the platform,
> it may not be supported in the future.
>
> That said, if someone out there has MWerks on an OS9 machine, and you
> want to help keep that platform alive, please speak up.
>
> Bruce, do you have any other thoughts on this matter?
>
> -Jonathan
>
>