Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-28 Thread Magnus Lycka
Dan wrote: > Just starting to do some windows Client / Server programming. Which > would you recommend? I need to create a server to fire events and > communicate with clients over a lan. Thanks There are plenty of Python solutions for this, most of them work with Windows, but aren't locked to it.

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-27 Thread Fuzzyman
Dan wrote: > Thanks to all, my main concern about anything Microsoft picks up and > runs with is that they vear off just slightly from the "standard" and > freeze everyone else out like they have done with their browser, > javascript etc.. etc... etc... So for now I will try to use Python / > Pyth

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-27 Thread Dan
Thanks to all, my main concern about anything Microsoft picks up and runs with is that they vear off just slightly from the "standard" and freeze everyone else out like they have done with their browser, javascript etc.. etc... etc... So for now I will try to use Python / PythonWin with the COM sup

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-26 Thread Fuzzyman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not > recommend it. I know at least one firm developing production quality software using IronPython, so your statement 'nowhere near' is a bit off. They're pretty close to a full Python 2.4 implementatio

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-26 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Dan wrote: > >> I realise its in beta. But long term, do you think that the win32com, >>win32gui etc... will have no support because everyone jumps on the >>Microsoft bandwagon? Aren't the windows support extensions supported >>primarily by one guy, Mark Hammond? As a

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-24 Thread sanxiyn
Caleb Hattingh wrote: > Also, I think IronPython is also supported by only one guy - Jim > Hugunin. The fact that IronPython development is effectively being > sponsored by Microsoft doesn't fill me with great expectations either, > although it would be a good thing if they really supported it wel

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-24 Thread sanxiyn
Dan wrote: > > I realise its in beta. But long term, do you think that the win32com, > win32gui etc... will have no support because everyone jumps on the > Microsoft bandwagon? Aren't the windows support extensions supported > primarily by one guy, Mark Hammond? As a developer, this seams to leave

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-24 Thread Caleb Hattingh
Hi Dan Pythonwin just adds support for specifically MS Windows features, most prominently COM; writing Excel scripts in python is so cool. The standard python distribution for windows runs perfectly on windows. I'm not sure whether this was clear to you or not. Also, Thomas ctypes and comtypes

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-24 Thread Bruno Desthuilliers
Dan a écrit : >>>IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not >>>recommend it. > > I realise its in beta. But long term, do you think that the win32com, > win32gui etc... will have no support because everyone jumps on the > Microsoft bandwagon? Aren't the windows support e

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-24 Thread Dan
>> IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not >> recommend it. I realise its in beta. But long term, do you think that the win32com, win32gui etc... will have no support because everyone jumps on the Microsoft bandwagon? Aren't the windows support extensions supported pri

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-23 Thread Jorge Godoy
Casey Hawthorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Butternut squash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not >>> recommend it. >> >>But it's so cool. > > It's cool to have bugs? > > That really BUGS ME! You're c

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-23 Thread Casey Hawthorne
Butternut squash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not >> recommend it. > >But it's so cool. It's cool to have bugs? That really BUGS ME! -- Regards, Casey -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-23 Thread Butternut squash
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not > recommend it. But it's so cool. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

2006-03-23 Thread sanxiyn
IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not recommend it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list