Re: OK, everyone...

Magnus Lie Hetland <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Feb 2004 13:30:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.python.anygui.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alex Martelli <[email protected]>:
>
[snip]
> We might have some sinergy here... I now also own a Mac (the first
> in my life, 

:)

I've had a few macs many years back, and some of my colleagues have
OSX-boxes. Cool stuff.

> a 12" iBook G4 w/Panther) and am itching to try my hand at some
> MacOS X development.

Sounds good. Itching is always good ;)

> I have no dev't experience there, yet, though PyObjC looks yummy.  I
> have also installed the GPL version of the latest Mac Qt (a toolkit
> with which I do have experience, but not in the latest version and
> only on Linux and Windows) -- PyQt still had some teething trouble
> on the Mac last time I tried it (about 3 weeks ago), but it might be
> OK now, so that could be an alternative, too.

Both sound great; as we already have a Qt back-end it would be very
good if you (the two of you) could have a look at that (although
perhaps there are others with similar interests?)

> "Pair programming" (albeit not side by side, but at a distance:-)
> might provide me with just the right amount of incentive to squeeze
> this project into my overflowing schedule...

Wonderful.

Both of you: Feel free to start tweaking if you want. I guess getting
the existing (clearly suboptimal) test suite to run properly is the
first order of business. If you have other things you'd like to do,
then be my guest.

> Alex

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland           "The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
http://hetland.org            but a fire to be lighted."  [Plutarch]


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