Hi David, Not knowing how long you have been lurking or how you found us ( please tell if it was due to some work that I also do as Ambassador for this project to several other projects where I shamelessly do solicit for help :-) ), I serve as the QA Manager for Mahogany. I can also say that Python scripting / interpreter integration is a personal project of mine that as a non programmer, I am reliant on others to see implemented. I took over in this role about 4-5 months ago I think and one of the first things I did was to get a local copy of the bug / wishlist and examine it. What I discovered was that at that point fully half of the list was wishlist / enhancement requests from users who mostly were in the power user category although not always programmers.
As is my own case, I do not see myself getting my head around C++ in the near future but having exposed myself to Python, I believe getting myself upto speed there is achievable in a reasonable period. Since in the past, Mahogany has had a SWIG interface to Python, I wanted to get back some of that and have a sitruation where users similar to myself can code up small enhancements without dragging the development team away from more pressing development and debugging work. While all programs of any substance have bugs, it is still of concern to me that some of ours go back to 2000 and not all of those are due to external dependancies in wxWindows / GTK etc. I have noticed your desire for M to get a different layout scheme - preferably one that can be configured. I think that is a very good idea and would also like to see that. If we can al work to achieve it, it will also be one less entry on the list of enhancements (and since it also goes back to 2000, I am very interested in its progress ;-) :-) ) Tell us all you would like to see in M and I'm sure we will all help as best we can. You will find that while all of the current programmers are working on projects in common with our current roadmap http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/mahogany/M/doc/RoadMap.txt?rev=1 they are all also working on personal projects of interest which don't always get into the roadmap document. I know we have Python people waiting with bated breah for some way to get their code working with M so if you can help achieve that in some way, you will be welcomed with open arms. In return, tell us how we can help you. M is inherently modular so I doubt there is much that cannot be done. When can you start LOL ;-D Welcome once again, Dr. QA On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 11:39:23 -0400 David Abrahams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DA> If you all are interested, I would be happy to help out with Python DA> bindings using Boost.Python (since I happen to be intimately familiar DA> with it). Boost.Python is aimed at high-level C++ wrapping problems, DA> and we have a front-end called Pyste which uses GCC_XML to parse C++ DA> headers and generate wrapping code. DA> DA> All I ask in return is responsiveness from the Mahogany developers DA> for some feature requests I have. I've been dying for a decent DA> integrated mail/newsreader, and living with GNUs as the least of DA> several evils for a while now. ;-) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Mahogany-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mahogany-developers
