Re: A New Focus for AKLUG

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Troy Melhase wrote:

> The Beryl/Compiz Community config app is Python+PyGTK. And before
> they merged back into Compiz, I wrote the the Beryl KDE configuration
> manager with... guess!... Python+PyKDE. The KDE camp is taking a
> whole different direction with the X Composite extensions, so that
> little project is dead on arrival. (But my app is still better than
> the GTK version, by far!)
>
> Back on the OSS topic, I have to agree on the one hand that there
> isn't a whole lot of project participation from Alaskans. On the
> other hand, I can always name my own projects, even if only to name
> the exception that proves the rule:
>
> http://java2python.googlecode.com/
> http://ibpy.googlecode.com/
> http://profitpy.googlecode.com/
> http://pykde-sampler.googlecode.com/
>
> Each is Python-powered because as a professional programmer, I
> understand the need to use a language that is (a) open source, (b)
> cross-platform and (c) accomplishes the task in a clear manner easily
> understandable by other programmer.

;-) Given that criteria I'm almost surprised there isn't a
http://perl2python.googlecode.com/. There's no pleasing you Python types.
:-)

How's the facilities on googlecode, BTW, better/worse than sourceforge?

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Thu Sep 27 19:03:22 2007