Ed Leafe wrote:
> On Jun 11, 2007, at 9:43 PM, Paul McNett wrote:
> 
>> I'd like to clarify who developed the Dabo editor. This is fully
>> disclosed in the source, but I feel compelled to mention that we  
>> didn't
>> develop it from scratch, but wrapped the wx.STC (Styled Text Control),
>> which in turn was wrapped from another editor library (scintilla) and
>> added/improved some features that already existed. Most of the hard  
>> work
>> of the Dabo Editor, we have others to thank for.
>>
>> IOW, we didn't reinvent the wheel.
> 
>       Uh, well, I guess you could say that about everything in Dabo. We  
> didn't develop the UI toolkit; we didn't develop the database  
> connectivity; we didn't develop the Python language...

The framework in general does harness plenty of underlying technologies, 
technologies that if absent would probably have prevented Dabo from ever 
happening. However, the Dabo framework is also something "on its own", 
greater than the sum of its parts. It brings things to the table that 
simply didn't exist an as easy-to-use or comprehensive a manner.

The Dabo Editor, while cool and powerful, mostly wraps wx.STC and Dabo 
itself to do what it does. Sure, we made it better, but saying we 
developed the editor seemed to need some clarification is all.

-- 
pkm ~ http://paulmcnett.com


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