[Pythonmac-SIG] Robert Roebling: wxPython

[Robin Dunn]

Hi all,

I'd like to jump in at this point and add that contributions of Mac hardware
and development tools for this project would be greatly appreciated.  This
would allow me to better manage the wxMac version of the project, ensure
compatibility between versions, synchronize releases and be able to provide
support for the toolkit as a whole instead of just for a few flavors of it.

To those of you who can donate time to help, that is wonderful and thank
you.  To the rest of you, if you have spare machines of sufficient
capabilities to be useful on a project like this, please consider wxPython a
worthy project to donate to.  If you know of somebody else who might be able
to help, please forward this request on to them.  (Anybody have Steve Jobs'
email address?  ;-)

While considering this request please think of the potential benefit to the
world-wide software development community, as well as the potential tax
write-off! <wink>

--
Robin Dunn
Software Craftsman
robin@AllDunn.com
http://AllDunn.com/robin/
http://AllDunn.com/wxPython/  Check it out!



> Bill Dozier dozier@abs.net
> Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:38:06 -0400
>
> Guido,
>
> I'm interested; in fact, I've sort of hacked around trying to see if it
> would build and it looked promising. I just borrowed a header file or two
> from Stefan's code to get the right preprocessor variables set and then it
> looks like all I need to do is comment out the code that depends on parts
of
> the library that Stefan doesn't have ported yet.
>
> Since Robin's wxPython C++ code is mostly SWIG-generated and therefore
> pretty platform-neutral, I expected this to be the case. I was planning to
> try again once the final 1.5.2 (with CW Pro 5 projects for building
> extensions) and the final Mac wxWindows were released.
>
> I would really like to see this fly since I don't want to have to learn
any
> OS-specific API if I can help it and I really don't like Tk on the Mac. If
> no one with more MacPython experience than me wants to do this, then I
guess
> I will give it a go.
>
> Bill
>
> ----------
> >From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
> >To: pythonmac-sig@python.org
> >Subject: [Pythonmac-SIG] Robert Roebling: wxPython
> >Date: Tue, Aug 24, 1999, 11:10 AM
> >
>
> > Anybody interested in porting wxPython to the Mac?
> > WxWindows has already been ported, so it's probably a simple task.
> >
> > This is about the only cross-platform GUI toolkit that works on the
> > Mac besides Tk (most of the new Linux offerings are "cross-platform"
> > meaning Unix and Windows...).
> >
> > Please help this guy!
> >
> > (And where's the Mac port of 1.5.2 final? :-)
> >
> > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
> >
> > ------- Forwarded Message
> >
> > Date:    Mon, 23 Aug 1999 14:29:04 -0000
> > From:    Robert Roebling <roebling@ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
> > To:      Guido van Rossum <guido@cnri.reston.va.us>
> > cc:      Robin Dunn <robin@alldunn.com>, Stefan Csomor
> <csomor@advancedconcepts
> >    .ch>
> > Subject: wxPython
> >
> >
> >   Hi Guido,
> >
> > I'm the author of the Linux/GTK variant of wxWindows
> > and although I admit that I haven't written a single
> > line of code in that snake languge or yours, you may
> > have noticed that some of my work does get used by
> > users of Python, more exactly wxPython. wxPython are
> > the Python bindings to the wxWindows GUI library and
> > from what I have heard (and only that), they are not
> > quite unpopular. Currently, wxWindows has been ported
> > to GTK, Windows and Mac (there also is a badly maintained
> > Motif port), but our Python bindings are availble only
> > for Unix and Windows, as our wxPython pioneer doesn't
> > have access to a Mac. I wonder if you could maybe drop
> > a notice somewhere to motivate someone form the MacPython
> > team (assuming that there is one) to lend a hand. Note,
> > that this is mainly a question of compiling and making
> > a package out of it, as the code and the bindings are
> > already there - this doesn't mean that 10 minutes will
> > be enough for that, of course.
> >
> > I CC this mail to Stefan Csomor, the author of the Mac port,
> > and Robin Dunn, the author of the Python bindings of wxWindows,
> >
> >   Regards,
> >
> >     Robert
> >
> >
> > ------- End of Forwarded Message
> >
> >
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