On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 7:00 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> IMHO that is out of scope for a GSoC project. Maybe somebody with a lot of
> experience could do it, but a sound MVC framework with robust test coverage
> is IMHO going to take more effort. Sure, you can slap together a GUI, but
> that'll just be another me-too notebook that'll soon be as unmaintainable as
> SageNB.
+1
> Having said that, if you are going to write a proposal that covers details
> like, say, unlimited undo/redo and testing in a believable way then I'm sure
> we would pick it up.
If there were already a good Python (or IPython) Cross Platform Native
GUI (is there?), then a viable project would be to take it and make it
actually useful for Sage too. You should:
- find all existing "open source Python (or IPython) Cross Platform
Native GUI's":
- what's their current status?
- how widely used are they
- how's the code quality
- etc.
Such a list would include IDLE [1].
Then take the best existing one, and if it **doesn't totally suck**,
make a plan to extend it to make it useful for Sage.
If there is nothing like the above, after 20 years of Python (and 10+?
years of IPython), with millions of users, then you're probably not
going to write something better for Sage="Python+a massively
complicated library" in 2 months. Or, if you could, then you should
do it for millions of Python users first, not just for Sage.
(Aside: I agree with Nathann's skepticism about this statement: "In
the notebook, it would be a much harder task than in a native GUI."
Good cross platform native GUI's are also very, very hard to write...)
William
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDLE_%28Python%29
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University of Washington
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