On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:48 -0500, John Zelle wrote: > I am also very concerned about this situation, as I think VPython is a > wonderful tool (to which I've contributed).
Hi John - Thanks for that concern. If you are following the vpython list you see that I am digging into the immediate issues. I have no C++ skills to have atrophied, but - as I said there - getting an understanding of building Python extensions has been on my agenda and something concrete to dig into helps, so that I am having some fun with it. But I agree that for all the simplicity on the surface, there is more complexity underneath than one would hope for. It had Dethe, for example, throwing up his hands in trying a port to native Mac. The project funding is over, so that only volunteer resources are available to salvage it. I agree with you that more radical strategy than following the current path is probably necessary. Py-OpenGL is itself moving to a ctypes implementation, and ctypes is now in the core Python distribution. Slight problem being that I have no understanding of what that means. Intuition is that the best solution might be there, someplace. Meantime I am getting more familiar with the current C++ code, so that I should be in a position to contribute to a re-implementation, given a strategy to do so. But it is OTOH scary that as to the vpython list, I seem to be the guru at the moment, since I certainly don't consider myself qualified to think this through without folks with more low-level skills. I am holding off to going the scipy list with things until I at least can talk with some measure of intelligence - but I am still thinking that is where the best hope might be. Art _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
