[Pythonmac-SIG] ANN: Python Metadata Importer

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 19-mei-2005, at 19:39, Jonathan Wight wrote:

> On May 19, 2005, at 13:32, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
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>> On 19-mei-2005, at 17:49, Jonathan Wight wrote:
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>>> And again with long URLs fixed ;-)
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>>> I released the code under the GPL
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>> Why GPL?
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> Why not?

That's as good an answer as any. I was just wondering. One reason to  
pick a MIT/BSD license (or even the PSF license) is that it is very  
unlikely that GPL-ed code will ever be included with Python itself.
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> Suggest something different.
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>>> - with minor modifications to the
>>> code I think anyone should be able to create Spotlight Importers
>>> using python (without depending on PyObjC)...
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>> Is that a challenge? You cannot create importers using PyObjC at  
>> the moment.
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> Not at all. But feel free to take it as challenge if you wish.  
> Pistols at dawn? ;-)
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> I chose not to use PyObjC because:
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> 1: I started this before the PyObjC guys had officially released  
> PyObjC for 10.4
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> 2: I'm not an expert in PyObjC.
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> 3: I wasn't sure how to bundle PyObjC with the importer without  
> conflicting with PyObjC already on their machine (see #2)
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> 4: It was pretty quick and easy even without PyObjC.
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> 5: It was fun. ;-)
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>     Jon.
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