This announcement from the PLplot project, and this report about it from Slashdot tout the ten thousandth commit to PLplot's source repository. My response? "Big deal!" Both the Python and wxWidgets projects are about the same age as PLplot and the wx repository currently has almost 61,000 commits, and the Python repository has over 73,000 commits. While those numbers are impressive considering that they represent mostly volunteer unpaid time from dozens of developers, they still pale compared to other projects.
On the other hand, the number of commits is really a very poor metric to measure open source projects by. Much more impressive is the number of users who would rather be using the software than anything else that could compete with it.
Posted in Development, Software by Robin
wxPython 2.8.9.2 has just been released. This release adds the wx.lib.agw package, adds an event watcher to the widget inspection tool, and fixes a bunch of bugs.
- Changes in 2.8.9.2
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- APT (Debian or Ubuntu packages)
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wxPython 2.8.8.1 has just been released, with a few bug fixes for issues found in 2.8.8.0.
- Changes in 2.8.8.1
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Posted in Development, Release, Software by Robin
After a much longer than anticipated time since 2.8.7.1, wxPython 2.8.8.0 has been released.
- Changes in 2.8.8.0
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I've just released the new 2.8.7.1 build of wxPython. This release has had some bugs fixed, some minor patches applied, and also incorporates the Google Summer of Code 2007 version of XRCed, and adds the Editra source code editor. More details can be found in the changes list. wxPython source and binaries for Windows, Mac OS X and Fedora can be downloaded from the download page. Binaries for Debian and Ubuntu i386 and amd64 architectures are available in the wxWidgets APT repository, see this wiki page for details.
NOTE: On Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) the Python 2.5 binaries of wxPython expect to be used with the user-installed version of MacPython, not the Apple installed version. A fix for this issue is being worked on for the next release. In the meantime you can either install MacPython 2.5.1 and adjust your paths so that that Python is used, or you can stick with Apple's Python and the wxPython 2.8.4.0 that comes with Leopard.
Happy Hacking!
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