On Feb 27, 2007, at 1:10 AM, Paul McNett wrote:
> I think from prior conversations that Ed agrees (let me know if I have
> that right, Ed) but what do others think?
I don't agree that the demo stuff should be in the framework. I
strongly prefer the wxPython model, with a single demo application
that those who want to explore Dabo and its code have a single place
to go for this. The current demo apps were just random thoughts that
happened to have been included because of timing, user requests,
etc., rather than being part of a well-thought-out approach to
creating a tool that both demonstrates what Dabo can do, and gives
interested developers a way to see how it was done. The DaboDemo
project is what we should be focusing on here; I showed it to several
people at PyCon, and they all loved the idea.
As far as the IDE stuff goes, I'm not convinced it's a good idea
yet. The framework is so much more mature than the IDE stuff that
there is a distinct disconnect; I don't know that it's good to
include them as parts of the 'same thing' yet. OTOH, anything that
gets rid of the use of the term 'daboide' is a huge plus.
On Feb 27, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Uwe Grauer wrote:
> At least daboide is direct dependent on dabo so i always was wondering
> about why they were put into different repositories.
The IDE is an application written in Dabo. There are two things
involved here: the framework, which needs to be in site-packages, and
the IDE application that a user could install anywhere.
In the future when the IDE is more mature, I envision the following:
someone wants to try Dabo, so they do something (in Ubuntu terms)
like: apt-get install python-dabo. The package manager installs the
application in the /usr/local/bin directory, notes the dependencies
on Python 2.x, wxPython 2.x.x, MySQLdb 1.x, etc., and installs them
in to the appropriate places.
Hmmm... now that I've put my thoughts on paper, I think that
combining these together is a bad idea. The framework is a site-
packages-level project, and the other two are applications that,
while both written in Dabo, do completely different things. So I'd
say that they should remain separate, even if it means that we're
stuck with that infernal 'daboide' name.
-- Ed Leafe
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