On Jan 16, 2004, at 1:43 PM, Russell E. Owen wrote: > In article <B430AC58-4820-11D8-8BB4-000A958D1666 at cwi.nl>, > Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen at cwi.nl> wrote: > >> I'm a bit surprised at the results: MacPython-OS9 is a *lot* more >> popular than I had thought.... Over the last few months I see about >> 6000 MacPython downloads per month from my site (I didn't check >> versiontracker and such, that'll be a couple hundred more, I guess)... > > This may not only be people using MacOS 9. Having a carbon version of > MacPython running on MacOS X makes a certain amount of sense. The main > one being that drag-and-drop applets having an actual console window. > I've not had the nerve to ask my users to open the system console to > see > results. > > Also, I doubt any significant # of users are affected by this, > but....Carbon MacPython made it trivial to get to the file creation > date, and I ended up using it for processing some files. I'm sure it > can > be obtained in framework MacPython, but so far haven't figured out how. > > Due to these issues, I still use carbon MacPython for a fair # of my > file conversion scripts, although most of my work is done using > framework MacPython. You should speak up about things like this -- it's totally possible to develop a Framework Python BuildApplet that redirects stdin/stdout to a window. File a feature request and/or make some noise in pythonmac-sig. -bob
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