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BeeWare project: A request for your help(pybee.org)
12 points by freakboy3742 9y ago|1 comments
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by freakboy3742 9y ago
The full standard library is a work in progress; at the moment, there's only a couple of key parts of sys, os, and the like. But Ouroboros ( https://github.com/pybee/ouroboros ) is a project to develop a full standa
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by freakboy3742 9y ago
Good news on the generator front - VOC fully supports generators, lambdas, passing functions as arguments, and all sorts of things that Python allows but Java (the language) doesn't. As for a guide to calling Java from Python - we don&
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by freakboy3742 9y ago
If you want a smaller target, VOC ( http://pybee.org/voc ) can generate a "Hello World" APK in about 1.6MB. VOC is compiler that takes Python code, and output Java bytecode. This means you can use the Android native
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by freakboy3742 9y ago
AFAIK, Plyer will give you access to native APIs like accelerometers, but not to the native GUI layer. An alternative approach is VOC ( http://pybee.org/voc ) - this is compiler that takes Python code, and output Java bytecod
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by freakboy3742 9y ago
The primary difficulty is that JNI is really limited on Android. It exists, but it's really slow, and there are some hard limits imposed at the kernel level. An alternative approach is VOC ( http://pybee.org/voc ) - th
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Django Software Foundation Calls for Applicants for a Django Fellow(djangoproject.com)
3 points by freakboy3742 12y ago|0 comments
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Erm... RTD does none of those things. There's a default site theme that is specific to RTD - they don't try to impersonate anyone. They don't "lift" anything unless the project owner has opened an account and requ
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Why you put Read The Docs in the same category? RTD doesn't host anything unless you specifically set up an account and say you want to use them. They don't troll the web looking for projects, and hosting their docs whether they w
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Re-election of the DSF Board: Call for Candidates(djangoproject.com)
11 points by freakboy3742 12y ago|0 comments
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
The Fellow's immediate reporting chain is to a subcommittee of the DSF. Effectively, they're "working" for the DSF (although as a contractor, not as an employee); that committee is responsible for working out if they&#x2
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Django Software Foundation Calls for Applicants for a Django Fellow(djangoproject.com)
3 points by freakboy3742 12y ago|2 comments
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I cover some of the "why" in the docs, but I agree the homepage could do a better job of making the case for a new UI toolkit. The short version: * System native widgets, not themes * Installable via &quot
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
FYI, Toga uses Cassowary as well - natively through Apple's implementation on OSX and iOS, and via a Python implementation of the algorithm ( http://pybee.org/cassowary/ ) for GTK and Windows.
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Spotify's UI is many things, but it doesn't even begin to appear system native.
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Given that the project was announced publicly 1 week ago, I wouldn't expect to see it in Debian (testing or otherwise) for a little while.
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Not yet. Android support is on the todo list once I've processed all the feedback that has come as a result of the initial release.
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Thanks for the promotion :-) Of those tools, the test runner (cricket) is the most mature; the debugger isn't much more than a proof of concept. Those tools are also based in Tkinter at the moment; I started Toga because I've star
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Sounds like you're on Windows. Unfortunately, Windows support is pretty primitive at this point (reflecting my own priorities - OSX, Unix and mobile support is a more pressing concern). I'll update the homepage and docs to better
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Project author here; Thanks for the heads up - I haven't come across Enaml before. I'll take a look.
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Yes, the project is very early stage - I've been tinkering for 6 months in my spare time (and it's not like I had a whole lot of that to start with). Getting cross platform on 4 platforms has, as you mi
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
I'll completely agree. This is a project that has been built in the last 6 months of my spare time from all my other projects, and most of that time has been spent getting things to a point where they work . The APIs aren't yet s
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Project author here; let me confirm that Toga only uses GTK+ under Ubuntu/Linux. On OS/X, it uses Cocoa. I've just clarified the text in that section of the website. Thanks for the heads up.
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
The spacing and margins are all manually specified (or, in the case of the example, aren't specified at all, so they default to 0). If you cared to do so, this spacing could be manually adjusted. Under the hood, it's 100% native
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
Thanks for the compliment. As others have pointed out, this isn't an idea of my own creation - others (e.g., SQLAlchemy) have taken similar approaches in other APIs. I'm just exploiting a pattern that I've seen used to good e
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by freakboy3742 12y ago
I'll save you the suspense - we've run the campaign twice, and we're not going to run it again. Part of the sales gimmick was that it was the limited availability. But, fear not - given the success of the campaign this time,
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Reviving Django Project Update blog posts(djangoproject.com)
2 points by freakboy3742 13y ago|0 comments
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by freakboy3742 13y ago
One feature that all these tools share is that they're console based. This is nice, but there's a reason we all use graphical environments for our daily computing -- rich graphical user interfaces are a powerful tool for visualisi
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by freakboy3742 13y ago
(BugJar core developer here) Thanks for the compliment. Bugjar is a work in progress; it's got some rough edges, and definitely some missing features -- but I'm excited for what it can become.
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Announcing the inaugural winner of the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize(djangoproject.com)
2 points by freakboy3742 13y ago|0 comments

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