Re: [Visualpython-users] Advice: iMac

[Gary P. <pa...@in...>]

Thanks.  I'll cry and stamp my feet until they upgrade at least a couple of
the OS9 systems.
-gary


> 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
> >
> >
>