A few weeks ago I sent the following challenge to the PYxIDEs list, and I thought it might be a good idea to republish it here to give it a little more exposure. Read the rest of this entry »
The wxWidgets project is shooting for a quick turn-around on the 2.8.5 release and wants to get the 2.8.6 release out next week. So I am going to skip the wxPython 2.8.5.0 release entirely, and will go straight to a wxPython 2.8.6.0 release.
The upside is that some of the things fixed and polished in wxWidgets would have been problematic for some wxPython users, and so we'll skip those problems and not have to deal with them at all. (Some were bugs introduced by the fixes for other bugs, so you may not notice any changes at all compared to 2.8.4.2, other than the original fix.) The other upside of this skip is that all of the usual last-minute distribution related problems have already been worked out while I was working on doing a 2.8.5.0 build, and that should allow me to have the 2.8.6.0 build ready fairly soon after the wxWidgets release (or maybe even before if they wait a few days for the announcement like they've been doing lately.)
The downside is that I'm going to be on-site at OSAF all of next week celebrating the release of Chandler and planning Chandler's next steps, so I will likely be running this release build remotely. I guess I'll get a chance to see exactly where all of the holes in my automated build system really are! 
Anyway, the preview build is in progress right now. If you're interested in testing or in having the bleeding-edge version of the binaries then keep an eye on the wxPython-dev mail list for an announcement from R'bot when he is done with the build and upload.
I got a good chuckle out of this quote:
"I understand that you want this. I am advising you against wanting it." -- Chris Mellon
Another preview build of 2.8.5.0 is in the pipeline. When it is done uploading it will be available here. This build has had only minor tweaks since the last preview to a couple of the python modules in the library, and so will likely be the last preview before the 2.8.5.0 release. On the other hand, some other fixes have already been made to the wxWidgets C++ code and there will probably be a 2.8.6.0 real soon.
It's been about a month since I switched my primary computer to a MacBook Pro, (2.4 GHz, 4G ram, with the new 17 inch hi-rez display) which I got for myself for my birthday. So I thought that this would be a good time for a review, and since I'm now a blogger it makes sense to share it with all of you too.
