Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 13:24:35 +1100, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >: NOTE! This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use kernel >: services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal use >: of the kernel, and does *not* fall under the heading of "derived work". OK

Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 17:47:30 -0800, Robert Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, that's not to say that they are correct in their interpretation of >the GPL's terms. In fact, if I had to bet on an outcome, I'd probably >wager that the court would hold that only static linking would force the >pr

Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 10:47:25 +1100, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So there you have it: there must be some portion of the GPLed Program >contained in >the other work for it to fall under the scope of the GPL, and/or as defined as >a >derivative work in local copyright law (local beca

Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 07:57:51 +1100, Tim Churches <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thus, it seems to me, and to the expert legal advice which we sought >(note the scope of the advice was Australian law only) that provided no >GLPed source or object code is mixed, included or combined with >non-GPLed c

Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 19:41:11 +0100, "Fredrik Lundh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Am I totally off-target? > >yes. for details, see the "Combining work with code released under the >GPL" section on this page: Mmmm.. The FAQ isn't very clear about whether it's allowed to write a proprietary EXE tha

Re: Big development in the GUI realm

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 18:30:18 +0100, Michael Goettsche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Not 100% right. Only drivers for commercial databases will not be included, >mysql and co. are available. What I find weird, is that I always understood the GPL meaning that you must give back any contribution you ma

Re: WYSIWYG wxPython "IDE"....?

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:25:06 +1100, Jussi Jumppanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To me, the very fact that the only solution if you don't want >> to carry a multi-megabyte widget set with you (either wxWidgets >> or QT is to go the MFC way (which a lot of C developers seem >> to hate) through >

Re: WYSIWYG wxPython "IDE"....?

2005-02-07 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:54:08 +0100, Uwe Grauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Most People don't realize, that they have to use the cvs-version >instead. It's rather that most people prefer to use the latest stable version, since stuff under CVS is still under development. Does someone know why the Bo

Re: Zen of Python

2005-01-19 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 14:13:47 -0500, Timothy Fitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >While I agree that the Zen of Python is an amazingly concise list of >truisms, I do not see any meaning in: (snip) For those interested, here's the list: http://www.python.org/doc/Humor.html#zen Luke. -- http://mail.py

Re: Windows GUIs from Python

2005-01-11 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:15:36 +0100, Thomas Heller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, venster. Although it is most certainly alpha. But with some >work... Thx, I'll keep an eye on it. http://venster.sourceforge.net/ Luke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Windows GUIs from Python

2005-01-11 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 12:55:42 -0600, Doug Holton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You might also be interested in PyGUI although it doesn't have a native >Windows implementation yet: >http://nz.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/~greg/python_gui/ Generally speaking, appart from MFC-style programming with Python32,

Re: Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?

2004-12-28 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:06:57 -0500, Ed Leafe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >That's where Paul and I came from, and that was our initial motivation >for deciding to develop Dabo - there wasn't a Python tool out there >that could even begin to approach what we were used to with VFP. Interesting discu

Re: Tricks to install/run Python on Windows ?

2004-12-26 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:43:24 +0100, StepH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What's wrong ? Python seems terific, but the tools... You could uninstall both Python and PyWin32 a.k.a. PythonWin, and install ActiveState Python which includes both in one tool. Then, check if the PythonWin IDE works fine. L

Re: Best GUI for small-scale accounting app?

2004-12-20 Thread Luke Skywalker
On 20 Dec 2004 13:28:02 -0800, "John Machin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Babelfish gave up on "durchzuwursteln" and so did I -- >"through-to-sausage-???" This is getting erotic ;-) Luke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: wxPython to build an HTML analyser/displayer?

2004-12-01 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:57:45 -0800, "Roger Binns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (snip) Thx the links. Luke. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Python Win32 Silent Install

2004-12-01 Thread Luke Skywalker
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:15:38 -0500, Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You are right about ActiveState, the copy you download from their web >site is licensed to prohibit redistribution. They might be prepared to >cut you a special license, but you'd have to ask them about that. Does it m

wxPython to build an HTML analyser/displayer?

2004-12-01 Thread Luke Skywalker
Hi, Currently, I use filters in Privoxy followed by a JavaScript embedded script to further filter a web page that is restricted to IE (because of incompatibilities of the DOM), and was wondering if it'd be feasible to write a Python GUI app with wxPython that would do the same, ie. fetch a web pa