At http://cil.andrew.cmu.edu/projects/visual the Macintosh version is now
up to date with the Windows version, except for there being no integrated
IDLE and some speed issues. Work is proceeding on these issues.
The VPython download adds to Mac Python 2.0 up-to-date demo programs and an
up-to-date documentation package, with integrated Python and Visual
documentation. Mac Python 2.0 is a somewhat different package than Windows
Python 2.0. The Mac version does not include Python documentation but does
include Numeric. The Windows version has the Python documentation but does
not include Numeric. For this reason the VPython add-on is different for
the two platforms.
I am again indebted to Ihor Rokach for his helpful suggestion on how to
automate the creation of zip files. It would indeed be much better to have
the zip files for the individual Windows components, especially to ease
download problems, so I'll try to put this together. (I will continue to
use an installer, Inno Setup, to make the full VPython package, to address
the problems we've found with newcomers failing to put Visual in the right
place.)
Bruce Sherwood
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