[Pythonmac-SIG] "All I want..." [was: IDE feature requests]

[Murphy/Kostick]

Steven:

I am interested in the work you're doing with PyObjC. 
I think it would be very nice to have access from Python to 
the Cocoa API, in particular the Application Kit.

Although my skills and time are very limited (I estimate it would take
me at least 2-3 months to get where you are now), I 
nevertheless have also downloaded Lele's  project from codefab
and 
have started to play with it (I'm learning about make files now).

So you at least have one cheerleader! I'll keep my eye on SourceForge
to see if there's anyway I can materially help.

-- 
Jim Murphy
Wall Township, New Jersey 
USA

"Steven D. Majewski" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Chris Barker wrote:
> >
> > All I want is for the interpreter to work like it does on *nix!
> >
> 
> Well Chris: you could try it on MacOSX -- only problem is that
> to run Tkinter, you have to log out and log in a console session
> so you can start X11 --- which means you can't run you other Mac
> apps. ( Or you can run MacPython in the "Classic" enviromnent --
> which is pretty much the same as what you've got now. )
> 
> But, just to take this as an excuse for an update (if anyone is
> interested) :  PyObjC is more-or-less working on MacOSX -- I can
> load Foundation classes, but when I try to load the AppKit classes
> to open and display a window, it gives a warning about not finding
> a theme file just before it crashes with a bus error. ( The good
> news is that on OSX, everything else keeps chugging away after
> your bus error! )
> 
> PyObjC development is in the process of being set up at SourceForge.
> 
> I haven't yet tried another attempt at building Python Carbon libs --
> AppKit looked like it was closer to working, so that's been on the
> shelf. ( Last attempt: I was able to compile some modules against
> Universal Interfaces, but there were so many module interdependencies
> that I'm going to have to build all or most of it to get modules
> to link.
> 
> Is anyone else out there taking a hack at it ?
> 
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