On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:47 AM, <toufi...@gmail.com> wrote: > 1- designing a GUI programmatically (talking here about winforms) is time > consuming so why there is no graphical GUI designer like in a c# projects > where you can drag and drop widgets on your winform? It should be an open > source project and please not like wxglade!
The Visual Studio forms designer, in theory, supports multiple languages ... as long as those languages are similar enough to C#/VB to work with the CodeDOM extensibility model. Python is not such a language. There was work on a CodeDOM provider once upon a time, but it was never complete - the impedance mismatch is just too high. Developing one outside of VS would be a huge undertaking with minimal return compared to other work that needs to be done. I would rather see an embeddable code editor (with debugging support), for example. Or IronPython 3. :) > > 2- what does the future hold for ironpython? Will it continue to get support > from Microsoft or it is over ? Will it be maintained in the future and by > whom? Microsoft support ended years ago, as Vernon mentioned. It's now run as an open source project by a group of volunteers. Support is provided on a best-effort basis. THe contributors tend to work on what interests them or is in their way. > > Before investing more on ironpython getting answers on these two questions is > important. I would really appreciate if someone more involved with ironpython > can answer me. If you have any further questions, don't hesitate to ask. - Jeff _______________________________________________ Ironpython-users mailing list Ironpython-users@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/ironpython-users
