[Python-Dev] Re: No more releases of MacPython-OS9? (original) (raw)

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Fri Jan 16 19:27:18 EST 2004

On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote:

In article <B430AC58-4820-11D8-8BB4-000A958D1666 at cwi.nl>, Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> wrote:

I'm a bit surprised at the results: MacPython-OS9 is a lot more popular than I had thought.... Over the last few months I see about 6000 MacPython downloads per month from my site (I didn't check versiontracker and such, that'll be a couple hundred more, I guess)... This may not only be people using MacOS 9. Having a carbon version of MacPython running on MacOS X makes a certain amount of sense. The main one being that drag-and-drop applets having an actual console window. I've not had the nerve to ask my users to open the system console to see results. Also, I doubt any significant # of users are affected by this, but....Carbon MacPython made it trivial to get to the file creation date, and I ended up using it for processing some files. I'm sure it can be obtained in framework MacPython, but so far haven't figured out how. Due to these issues, I still use carbon MacPython for a fair # of my file conversion scripts, although most of my work is done using framework MacPython.

You should speak up about things like this -- it's totally possible to develop a Framework Python BuildApplet that redirects stdin/stdout to a window.

File a feature request and/or make some noise in pythonmac-sig.

-bob

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