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October 31st 2012, 06:51 AM
shevek
Oh and how is your editor? Getting any further or stalled because of lack of input from us lazy users?
It's going well. I'll release version 1 "tomorrow".
The lack of input is slightly demotivating, but it also motivates me to make it more user-friendly, so even lazy users can run it.
Just one thing I need to rant about:
There's one thing I'm not going to do, however. If you want to run it, you will need to get Python and PyGtk separately. I know of several Windows programs (for example Inkscape) which package such software with it. The result is that you can download one thing and it works. That seems nice, but it isn't. The result is also that if a security hole is found in Python, you have to look into your installed programs and update each one which includes Python. And in many cases you may need to wait (and/or ask) for the fixed version to be included in the package. The end result is a system full of copies of the same code, all of which have bugs in different places.
The proper solution to this is a distribution, where I can say "this program requires python". Then when installing it, the system will automatically pull in Python as well, if it wasn't installed yet. When Python is updated, the program automatically uses the new version. Every system I know except Windows works this way. In Windows, the burden of keeping the dependencies up to date is put with the maintainer of the program using it, not with the maintainer of the thing which should be updated. That is very wrong. And I'm just not accepting that burden. So I give it back to the users. If you don't like it either, then don't use Windows.
I'll shut up about it now, and stop caring about Windows again. That makes me much happier.
It's going well. I'll release version 1 "tomorrow".
The lack of input is slightly demotivating, but it also motivates me to make it more user-friendly, so even lazy users can run it.
Just one thing I need to rant about:
There's one thing I'm not going to do, however. If you want to run it, you will need to get Python and PyGtk separately. I know of several Windows programs (for example Inkscape) which package such software with it. The result is that you can download one thing and it works. That seems nice, but it isn't. The result is also that if a security hole is found in Python, you have to look into your installed programs and update each one which includes Python. And in many cases you may need to wait (and/or ask) for the fixed version to be included in the package. The end result is a system full of copies of the same code, all of which have bugs in different places.
The proper solution to this is a distribution, where I can say "this program requires python". Then when installing it, the system will automatically pull in Python as well, if it wasn't installed yet. When Python is updated, the program automatically uses the new version. Every system I know except Windows works this way. In Windows, the burden of keeping the dependencies up to date is put with the maintainer of the program using it, not with the maintainer of the thing which should be updated. That is very wrong. And I'm just not accepting that burden. So I give it back to the users. If you don't like it either, then don't use Windows.
I'll shut up about it now, and stop caring about Windows again. That makes me much happier.
