I am the facilitator for the SIMPL open source project (http:// www.icanprogram.com/simpl). The SIMPL toolkit project started over 10 years ago as a way to bring Send/Receive/Reply (QNX style) messaging to Linux. A SIMPL application consists of two or more interacting SIMPL modules. Those modules can be written in any number of languages including Python, C, C++, JAVA, Tcl/Tk and soon PHP. Modules written in different languages can be mixed in a SIMPL application (some Python and C examples are here http://www.icanprogram.com/06py/lesson1/lesson1.html). SIMPL modules can be distributed on a single node or spread across a network often without even a recompile. Until now a SIMPL network had to contain at least one Linux node.
This is about to change. Recently work (http://icanprogram.ca/simpl/ simpl.self.html) has allowed the SIMPL core library to be successfully compiled and run on a Mac. We'd love to do the same with Windows/ Cygwin. Over the years the Python-SIMPL webpages have always been amongst the top for web hits on the SIMPL website every month. So despite its limitations Python-SIMPL is apparently very popular in the Python community. We'd love to extend the Mac work to include the Python- SIMPL library and thereby make the Mac a full Python-SIMPL citizen. If the work with Windows/Cygwin progresses along a similar path to the Mac effort, we'd love to do the same with the Python-SIMPL library there. Our goal is to have three fully functional Python-SIMPL libraries: Linux, Mac and Windows. We are looking for Python volunteers to help make this happen. If you are interested don't hesitate to contact me offlist or make contact on the SIMPL project mailing list. Thanks. bob -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
