Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote: Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by barton_c, and Python27 support (ie switches) were added 2 months ago. Looks like Barton_C needs to do some advertising. I'll see if I can contact him/her through sf. Got this reply from Barton, who's not

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-03-01 Thread David Hutto
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote: Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by barton_c, and Python27 support (ie switches) were added 2 months ago. Looks like Barton_C needs to do some advertising. I'll see if I can

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-03-01 Thread Tim Golden
On 01/03/2011 10:14, David Hutto wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Tim Goldenm...@timgolden.me.uk wrote: On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote: Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by barton_c, and Python27 support (ie switches) were added 2 months ago. Looks like Barton_C needs

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Foord
On 1 March 2011 07:44, Octavian Rasnita orasn...@gmail.com wrote: From: Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining the current implementation. Oh, in that case imho

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/02/2011 05:01, Vernon Cole wrote: Hmmm... projects get abandoned for many reasons. Michael: In your professional opinion would it be worthwhile to clone/fork/resurrect the pythonnet project, or is it a bad idea better left dead? Well, the last Svn commit was 4 weeks ago, by barton_c,

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/02/2011 09:40, Tim Golden wrote: On 28/02/2011 05:01, Vernon Cole wrote: Hmmm... projects get abandoned for many reasons. Michael: In your professional opinion would it be worthwhile to clone/fork/resurrect the pythonnet project, or is it a bad idea better left dead? ... and what I

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Michael Foord
On 28 February 2011 05:01, Vernon Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm... projects get abandoned for many reasons. Michael: In your professional opinion would it be worthwhile to clone/fork/resurrect the pythonnet project, or is it a bad idea better left dead? Python.NET is a great

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Vernon Cole
So with pythoncom on one hand and pywin32 on ironclad on the other you could go either way on either compiler? Sounds pretty neat. Is pythoncom python3 ready? (I haven't looked at source yet. Vernon Cole (sent from my 'droid phone) On Feb 28, 2011 2:58 AM, Tim Golden m...@timgolden.me.uk

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Tim Golden
On 28/02/2011 4:33 PM, Vernon Cole wrote: So with pythoncom on one hand and pywin32 on ironclad on the other you could go either way on either compiler? Sounds pretty neat. Is pythoncom python3 ready? (I haven't looked at source yet. Certainly is. I've had my wmi module running against it

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Greg Ewing wrote: The downside is that 2k and XP users may need to install a .NET runtime. How would people feel about that? Most XP users have long ago had 2.0, 3.0, and 3.5 runtimes pushed to their systems through service packs and updates. For 2000, the run-time installation is not very

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Tim Roberts
Klonuo wrote: No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining the current implementation. I don't want to have to support two backends on Windows, and some of the things I intend to do with Windows Forms would be impractical to do using the raw Win32 API. With all due respect to

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining the current implementation. Oh, in that case imho I think this is a very bad idea. Can you elaborate on exactly what is bad about it, and suggest an alternative?

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-28 Thread Greg Ewing
Tim Golden wrote: Python.NET seems to sit in an awkward place in the ecosystem. Its niche seems to be: where you want a small bit of .NET technology (such as SQL-SMO in my case) but don't want to migrate any win-specific Python code. (ie stuff relying on pywin32) Or, as in my case, you are

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-27 Thread Octavian Rasnita
From: Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:orasn...@gmail.com] If it will still be possible to use the standard Win32 GUI, it is OK to be able to use Windows Forms as an adition. No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining the current

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-27 Thread Michael Foord
On 26 February 2011 20:31, Greg Ewing greg.ew...@canterbury.ac.nz wrote: Until recently I didn't think it was possible to use .NET libraries from CPython, but then I came across this: http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/ Using this, it looks like it should be possible to create a PyGUI

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-27 Thread Vernon Cole
Hmmm... projects get abandoned for many reasons. Michael: In your professional opinion would it be worthwhile to clone/fork/resurrect the pythonnet project, or is it a bad idea better left dead? -- Vernon On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Michael Foord fuzzy...@gmail.com wrote: On 26

Re: [python-win32] Possible future direction for PyGUI on Win32

2011-02-26 Thread Greg Ewing
From: Octavian Rasnita [mailto:orasn...@gmail.com] If it will still be possible to use the standard Win32 GUI, it is OK to be able to use Windows Forms as an adition. No, if I go this way, I would probably stop maintaining the current implementation. I don't want to have to support two