[Pythonmac-SIG] Build script for Universal Python

[Bob Ippolito]

On Feb 13, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Kevin Ollivier wrote:

> Hi Ronald,
>
> On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:28 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
>>
>> On 13-feb-2006, at 19:17, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 13, 2006, at 10:11 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 13-feb-2006, at 1:37, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> wonder how hard this is to add to IDLE, or if we can just link  
>>>>> to HTML docs.  I'm not personally a big fan of Help Book anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I just read the source for pydoc, we could install the HTML docs  
>>>> in Python.framework/Resources/English.lproj/Documentation.  
>>>> Idlelib would need a patch to support this location. There's  
>>>> already specific configuration for windows and linux in there  
>>>> (in idlelib.EditorWindow)
>>>
>>> That sounds fine, we're going to be making a couple IDLE hacks  
>>> anyway.
>>
>> Are we? We have a lot of patches anyway, adding another patch to  
>> teach idlelib about the document locations that pydoc recognizes  
>> won't be the most controversial one in our set of patches.
>>
>>>
>>>> I just remembered something else that needs to be done some  
>>>> time: create better icons, it's time to leave the 10 ton weight  
>>>> behind (or at the very least the current rendition of it). I  
>>>> won't do this though, given my skills in that deparment the  
>>>> icons would get worse instead of better.
>>>
>>> That's a good idea, but last I tried to get one of my friends to  
>>> do something about that it turned out to be "too realistic".  I'm  
>>> not going to bother wasting anyone else's time.
>>
>> I remember that. Is that icon still available? That icon was a lot  
>> better than what we have now, if anyone complains about the  
>> realism they can come up with another icon :-).
>
> There are other potential designs for icons; for example, have you  
> seen the snake icon for the wxPython demo (once it's loaded, it  
> changes from the weight icon to the snake)? (Sorry, yes, I know who  
> I'm asking. ;-) I also pointed out some other alternatives on some  
> thread on this list in Nov. 2003, thread "MacPython logo redux".  
> But then others complained, surprise, that it's too cartoony. :-)  
> The problem is not that there's no other icons, it's just that  
> we're not going to make everyone happy.

I'm not trying to start this thread again.  We'll stick with the 12  
ton icon until someone volunteers an icon that nobody is afraid of  
and is less ugly.

Please, everyone, do not continue this conversation until you have a  
serious candidate icon for replacing the 12 ton weight.  We don't  
need ideas or opinions, we need pixels.

-bob