Request for comments

[Claudio Esperança]

I've been responding to several people on pyglet-users discussion
group and decided it would be more polite to move discussions about
pyprocessing to a separate venue, which prompted me to start this
google group.

Since I have no way of testing pyprocessing under all platforms /
operating systems, I would be very thankful for any feedback
concerning bugs, applications or other issues. I am specially curious
to see if pyprocessing works under MacOS.

Cheers.

--Claudio

[J. Hall of Carlisle MA]

I currently am Macless as well. Around December 1 I'll be visiting Dad
and can try a couple of runs of a test suite if i am well organized.
I can ordinarily test under windows 7 64bit, windows XP 32 bit, and
Ubuntu Linux 64-bit. I have a workstation and am into visualization
so we could, for example, test it out on an OLPC sugar environment if
you want to make it accessible to that audience.

I'd like to see if i can begin to convert and customize some of the
132 documentation entries from Processing to be specific for
PyProcessing. I am not a wiki-wiz... but I can write Python to grock
mark up and partly automate rewrites based on your very handy
equivalence table.
Do you think this would be worthwhile?
I am sorry I have not poked around enough in the source and included
files yet and I have not read anything on the Pyglet forums about the
history of your project... but I am interested in helping out when I
have time.


On Oct 18, 12:08 pm, Claudio Esperança <claudio.espera...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[Claudio Esperança]

Needless to say, any help with pyprocessing will be extremely well
received. At the moment, I'm swamped with other matters although I've
had time to fix a couple of issues which were reported in the forum. I
should probably post the current svn snapshot as version 0.1.2 and I
hope I will find time for this during next week.

So, if you want to help tracking down compatibility issues across the
platforms / OSes you have access to, by all means go ahead. If you are
interested in becoming an official project contributor, just say so
and I'll add you to the pyprocessing google code hosting page. It
would be nice to have a wiki page with reports about all tested
configurations and issues found there.

At the moment there isn't much of a 'test suite', but only a
collection of examples which are mostly ports from the corresponding
examples found in the reference pages at the Processing site. This
collection should probably be expanded to cover all of Processing's
features supported by pyprocessing. Adding to this collection of
examples is also a worthwhile task. I should also mention that the
correspondence table between pyprocessing and Processing is still
unfinished.

I am especially concerned with the problem of configuring pyprocessing
to the various platforms. In particular, I am not satisfied with the
fact that flip policy must be configured manually after installing -
there should at least be a way of prompting the user the his/hers
preferred policy during the install process.

Cheers,

--Claudio


On Nov 7, 5:38 am, "J. Hall of Carlisle MA" <johnhall...@gmail.com>
wrote:

[SanctusGee]

Claudio,

I would love to be involved as a project contributor and help out with:

• Building the wiki page to show issues, tests and fixes as they are deployed
• Building examples with the different functionality of PyProcessing
• Finishing up the completion table mapping b/w Processing and PyProcessing features.

Some other Python-related projects I have assisted include Python Tools for Visual Studio at http://pytools.codeplex.com/

Look forward to hearing from you. Thanks!

Godwin

[anatoly techtonik]

On Saturday, November 7, 2009 3:05:17 PM UTC+3, Claudio Esperança wrote:

Needless to say, any help with pyprocessing will be extremely well
received.

... 

So, if you want to help tracking down compatibility issues across the
platforms / OSes you have access to, by all means go ahead. If you are
interested in becoming an official project contributor, just say so
and I'll add you to the pyprocessing google code hosting page.

For the start a simple CREDITS file will be better than a requirement to be an active contributor. An acknowledge notes for reporters and patch submitters in commit messages will also encourage occasional contributors to be more active in the long term.

http://code.google.com/p/pyprocessing/source/browse/#svn%2Ftrunk

I should also mention that the
correspondence table between pyprocessing and Processing is still
unfinished.

I'd say - this is the first thing that should be done and automated. If you have the time, I'd encourage you to spend it on this part. A good inspiring example: http://buildbot.pypy.org/numpy-status/latest.html