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Magnus Lie Hetland mlh at furu.idi.ntnu.no
Sun Feb 15 17:08:59 EST 2004 
In article <2c60f0e0.0402150306.78e188ee at posting.google.com>, Richard
James wrote:
[snip]
>I showed the "Practical Python" book to my boss. He liked the look of
>it. Can I get a refund? At least rename it "Mythical Python".

Why? The stuff about Anygui in Practical Python works, and Anygui is
available for download. And even if you ignore the stuff about Anygui,
there's about 600 pages of practical Python material in there. Or did
you have a problem with that too?

>And there has been NO notice on the website that the ANYGUI project
>has been abandoned, just a "stay tuned" notice. The developers list
>seems to have been abandoned by it's developers in August 2003.

There has been no official abandonement. I haven't had lots of time to
work on it while finishing my Ph.D (I guess you think I should have
prioritized Anygui?) and the other developers have similarly busy with
other things.

[snip]
>"a respected Python GUI unification project"???
>
>Was all this just smoke and mirrors to sell a $50 book?

No.

Anygui was in no way a reason for writing the book, or vice versa.
Anygui was/is a hobby project of mine. I had/have faith in the idea,
so I included it in the book because I thought of it as a nice
introduction to GUI programming.

>Is XML just the next hot book topic?

No.

[snip]
>The only consequence was that we were stuck with the SOW (Same Old
>Way) method for a few more months. Until we found the FREE and well
>documented Gui4Cli. We can now make simple gui changes in the Gui4Cli
>script language in under half an hour.

Sounds great.

[snip]

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Magnus Lie Hetland           "The mind is not a vessel to be filled,
http://hetland.org            but a fire to be lighted."  [Plutarch]
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