On 5/5/06, Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > kirby urner wrote: > > The PySqueak effort (badly named?) is more like the VPython effort. > > Its aim is to give us a sophisticated back end graphics engine to dink > > around with. > > I thought there was some idea about an IDE, ala Squeak; or at least I > assume this is what Paul was thinking about. Is any IDE or interactive > environment planned, or just a graphical environment?
I was thinking the low level API to the graphics engine would then allow developers to build their various IDEs, much as GTK does, except the widgets would be more 3D. The source code for these IDEs could be Python, but if multiple language bindings are supported, could just as well be some other language. In my view, a generic graphics engine that doesn't hard-code or hard-specify a particular IDE would give us more freedoms. But there'd have to be an event model and so on, so a lot of thinking about how to support graphical IDEs would be a part of the engine. Kirby _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
