Ed Leafe wrote: > On Nov 29, 2007, at 11:41 AM, Paul McNett wrote: > >> I don't understand why you wouldn't want the users to be able to >> run the >> demos standalone if they choose. wxPython's demo works that way. > > Priority #1 is getting all the demos working in DaboDemo. There are > only a handful currently, and it's the kind of thing that anyone even > partly fluent in Python could help with just by following the > existing examples and taking the self-test code from the ui classes.
Agreed. > My concern is that we avoid all the problems we had in the past by > having a bunch of disparate demos that each required a different way > of working that only served to confuse someone looking at Dabo for > the first time. That turned off way too many people, and we need to > avoid a repeat of that in the future. I haven't heard of anyone being turned off by the demos, except you and me that is, realizing that over the years the demos weren't updated to follow current Dabo practices. The problem wasn't lots of standalone demos, but I think it was not having enough documentation tying them together, and peoples general lack of desire to actually open up a code editor and follow along with the demo code, and tweak it to see what it does. DaboDemo satisfies these things, and more. It's fine and reasonable to say that our priority is to make more and better demos; it is another thing entirely to be against runnable standalone demos in principle, which is what it was sounding like your position was. -- pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/dabo-users/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
