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Ping from ipython-desktop #22

Closed mangecoeur closed 9 years ago

mangecoeur commented 9 years ago

Hi, really impressive project! I have worked on something similar - ipython deskop: https://github.com/mangecoeur/ipython-desktop which I put on hold pending the Jupyter update/split.

I'm really keen to see some kind of desktop frontend emerge for ipython, though I'm personally short on time I'd like to contribute (though I see you went down the native/C route which isn't my strong point :P )

nwhitehead commented 9 years ago

Very cool, I hadn't seen that before. Let me know if you have any ideas or suggestions for Pineapple.

The C++ application part of it is actually not too bad, it's mostly wxwidgets. Most of the complexity is in the final packaging to make sure everything actually works (dynamic libraries, paths, etc.)

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 7:03 AM, mangecoeur notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi, really impressive project! I have worked on something similar - ipython deskop: https://github.com/mangecoeur/ipython-desktop which I put on hold pending the Jupyter update/split.

I'm really keen to see some kind of desktop frontend emerge for ipython, though I'm personally short on time I'd like to contribute (though I see you went down the native/C route which isn't my strong point :P )

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mangecoeur commented 9 years ago

Yeah I've been looking through the project, the wx code doesn't look too hairy (normally I'm instantly put off C++ codebases, yours is very neat). What would be really cool is if you could document the build/packaging process (e.g. in the wiki or a blog post) - i think this is something a lot of people struggle with, whether for this kind of project or others, if you could capture that knowledge it might save a lot of people a lot of trouble!