On Aug 3, 2006, at 3:49 PM, Dethe Elza wrote: > Ronald Oussoren wrote: > >> On Aug 3, 2006, at 7:08 PM, has wrote: >>> p.s. If anyone'd like to help me out a bit, I'd really like to get >>> all the manuals into the standard Python documentation format >>> now. So >>> if you're familiar with the tools and would like to have a go then >>> let me know - it'd be much appreciated. >> >> Why do you want to do that? You have to use special tools to convert >> that to a useable format. > > And if you're trying to get docs into the standard library, those > folks > are perfectly willing to take plaintext documentation and dress it > up in > LaTeX themselves.
I really don't think that should be any immediate concern in the appscript case, I'd definitely be -1 on that. I don't think it would be a good idea to put more platform-specific stuff in Python, or to subject appscript and its dependencies to the same release schedule as Python itself. I'd like to see most of plat-mac get extricated from Python in the future, and move the cross-platform chunks like plistlib and applesingle to the standard library (or just separate projects). A much better and more immediate plan would be to setuptools-ify appscript so that it's easy to build and install. That could be done and released in an hour (oh how I love "python setup.py register bdist_egg sdist upload -s"). -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
