Hi, thanks everyone for the feedback here - I'd be interested to hear what Andreas has to say about this too.
So, instead of replying to you all individually, I'm just going to give my general thoughts on what the mails have led me to. Basically, I'm a lot more interested in this than I was yesterday. Simon mentioned the block editing feature which I agree would be a really great thing to have. I think this depends at least partly on Marien's work on the urwid front-end. If we can get rid of curses then implementing this should be a whole lot easier, so maybe a GSoC programmer could do some general house-keeping; helping with getting half-finished ideas completed and also take on tasks such as block editing. So, I'll take a look at the application form today and see what I think. If anyone has any suggestions for features, now is a good time to mention them. Re: the poster who mentioned bpython evolving into an IDE, well, personally I'm not too sure about this. It would take a hell of a lot to convince me to stop using vim as my text editor and personally I just don't see the point in trying to create text-editing features in bpython when there are already such powerful text editors around. But, I do think bpython being a part of another IDE would be great for a lot of people. I forget the name of the project, but there is an IDE that embeds existing tools such as vim and essentially outsources its components. The gtk port of bpython would allow bpython to be used with this project. Also the suggestion we had yesterday of having a socket server run inside bpython that can run code sent to it from e.g. vim is a great idea - Marien is doing some work with Twisted and bpython that would make this trivial to implement, so we would have slime-like (http://common-lisp.net/project/slime/) functionality. So there are definitely plenty of things we can do to improve bpython and I don't want to be the one who ruins the party by not applying to GSoC if it means we could end up having a better tool for everyone. I'll post back here with my progress. Thanks also to those who have said nice words about the project; it's always a pleasure to hear that others find my work useful. Thanks, On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 05:02:08AM +0530, Shashwat Anand wrote: > <snip> > > > > > I would also like to respond to the publicity issue raised by Anand. I am > > the maintainer of both the bpaste.net and bpython-interpreter.org domains. > > bpython-interpreter.org has had 13 000 visitors and 2 500 downloads of the > > archive file hosted on the website. For the current month we average about > > 350 visitors daily. A search on Twitter reveals a lot of people chattering > > about and we get picked up on quite a few weblogs. Now, I am not saying > > there is no room for improvement but I am saying that we do not need GSoC > > for publicity. If Bob decides we could try to participate it should be for a > > chunk of development power and not for a chunk of publicity. > > > > > Thanks for stating the statistics of which I was unaware of. It did cleared > a lot of issues. I agree upon the fact that if bpython decided to > participate it should be for chunk of development power and not for > publicity. But I still believe that assessing the pros and cons by > participating once, bpython can decide upon future participation. > > Regards, > ~Shashwat Anand (l0nwlf) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "bpython" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/bpython?hl=en. > -- Bob Farrell -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bpython" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bpython?hl=en.
