Ed, Delighted to read your email below.
We have used Visual Fox Pro a great deal in our business and I was very impressed with Dabo when I spent some time on it a few years ago, just reluctant to use a product that was constrained to Python 2. It would be super to be able to use Dabo with Python 3 at some point in the future and a good legacy for the work you have all put into Dabo to date. Harry Bowlby -----Original Message----- From: Dabo-dev [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Leafe Sent: 24 January 2019 16:34 To: Ed Leafe; Dabo developers' list Subject: Re: [dabo-dev] [dabodev/dabo] b42c4a: Ran the 2to3 tool on the dabo codebase On Jan 24, 2019, at 10:21 AM, EdLeafe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Branch: refs/heads/dabo3 I had some time over the holidays to play with the recent wxPython 4 that supports Python 3.x. So I decided to make a new effort to get Dabo working with Python 3. It's still very much a work-in-progress, but I am able to get some widgets showing on my Mac. I've also made some design changes. The biggest is that we no longer pretend to support anything other than wxPython for the UI. Another is that we will now use 4 spaces as the unit of indentation instead of a tab. I still like tabs better, but the decision to use tabs was made 15 years ago, and since then the Python world has strongly come down on the side of spaces. Since all my Python tooling is set to expand tabs to spaces, it's time to align Dabo with the rest of the world. For now this will live in the 'dabo3' branch, but if it ever gets truly usable, I'd like to move current master to a legacy branch, make this master, and then release it to the world. I don't use Dabo very much these days, and I won't have a lot of time to work on this, but I'd like to leave it in a state where someone else can move it forward if they choose. -- Ed Leafe [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-dev This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/16ef082c34750949bb3473d586f9de0322e...@se-exchange02.spitfire.co.uk
