Some of you may know that I retired a few weeks ago, and recently I had the notion to write a small desktop app, so of course I wanted to use Dabo. For the limited functionality I needed I could get it working, but the code got more and more confusing. Perhaps a lot of it was that in the years since we wrote it, both Python standards as well as my own tastes have changed. So since this repo is still "under development", I thought I'd start messing around with it.
The most obvious change is that the old `master` branch has been renamed to `dabo2`, and the `dabo3` branch has been renamed `main`. Since no more work will be done on the Python2 version of Dabo, I think that this makes sense. Within the new main branch, I moved the `ide` directory inside of the `dabo` directory. This will make it simpler to use the IDE tools when creating a third-party app. When I tried to do this with my simple app, there were some circular references between a separate installation of the IDE and the dabo package, so for any developer who wants to use the connection editor or class designer, this will make it possible. I've also done a lot of namespace cleaning up. Within the dabo package, we had countless places where we used the `dabo` namespace directly. This causes issues with apps that have imported dabo due to overlapping namespaces. I frankly don't know how or why we set it up that way, but it only works by our trick of adding a `dabo.pth` file. This trick isn't supported by modern package managers like poetry or uv, so I want to get rid of it. Speaking of package managers, I've added `uv` (https://docs.astral.sh/uv/) as the package manager for Dabo. It's super-fast and clean, and I've been happy using it in my regular dev work for the last few months. Bear in mind that for the foreseeable future, the `main` branch will be unstable. Since nobody should be using it anyway, I think that's fine. I don't know how far I'll get with these changes, but I would like to get this working once more. -- Ed Leafe _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: Dabo-dev@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: https://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-dev Searchable Archives: https://leafe.com/archives This message: https://leafe.com/archives/byMID/c7a66fe7-5ad8-404e-963d-ac04d2b87...@leafe.com
