On Feb 11, 2006, at 7:39 PM, I. Vinogradov wrote: > while on the topic of IDEs, would it be possible to somehow adapt > Xcode > to the task? It has Python keyword highlight, and PyObjC is one of the > possible types of documents. > > I have some vague notion that perhaps a pure python file template can > be made, that uses framework installation and all. Is something like > that even possible?
Xcode isn't a very good IDE for anything but the languages it supports natively. It does not have public APIs to change that, either. If you use Xcode as an IDE, it won't be much more than a glorified text editor with syntax highlighting. I wish it was a good idea to use Xcode, but they haven't built it in such a way that allows third parties to add value. It makes a little sense with PyObjC because we've put together some py2app integration with Xcode, but it's a really ugly hack and doesn't work all that reliably because the custom build+run target is for some crazy reason stored as a user setting rather than a project setting. It's also prone to break at any Xcode update because it needs to read the undocumented Xcode project file format in order to get the information it needs. If you're considering Xcode, you'd be better off with Eclipse for Python development. Eclipse is bigger, slower, and uglier -- but at least it can provide more functionality than a text editor. -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig