Current Release: 0.6 --------------- With over 140 items in the CHANGELOG since the 0.5p1 stable release, Pyjamas 0.6 is finally out. Thank you to everyone who's helped highlight issues. Pyjamas ------- Pyjamas is a port of Google Web Toolkit to Python, and thus enables the development of Rich Media AJAX applications in Python, with no need for special browser plugins. Pyjamas contains a stand-alone python-to-javascript compiler, and also a Widget Set API that looks very similar to Desktop Widget Set APIs (such as PyQT4 or PyGTK2). For more information, see: http://pyjs.org http://pyjs.org/FAQ.html http://pyjs.org/features.html Known bugs: http://code.google.com/p/pyjamas/issues #227, #228, #229, #230 and #232 Pyjamas-Desktop --------------- Pyjamas runs your application in a Web Browser (as javascript); Pyjamas-Desktop runs exactly the same python application on the Desktop (as python) http://pyjd.org Release 0.6 of Pyjamas also incorporates Pyjamas-Desktop directly into the Pyjamas Distribution. To use Pyjamas-Desktop there are three choices, with more planned [MacOSX PyObjC; KDE's PyKHTML]. 1) - XULRunner install hulahop and python-xpcom. hulahop is distributed with both Debian and Ubuntu; python-xpcom is part of XULRunner and is also distributed with both Debian and Ubuntu. Other users should investigate the installation instructions for python-xpcom and hulahop for the operating system of their choice on the appropriate web sites. GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and other POSIX systems are strongly advised to use XULRunner for Pyjamas-Desktop: it is the most stable of the PyJD ports. 2) - PyWebKitGtk you will need a patched version of pywebkitgtk: http://code.google.com/p/pywebkitgtk/issues/detail?id=13 you will need a patched version of webkit: http://github.com/lkcl/webkit/16401.master Detailed build instructions are available here: http://wiki.github.com/lkcl/webkit/helping-with-16401master 3) - MSHTML (beta) For Windows users, all that's required, other than installing python and Internet Explorer, is one further package: Win32 "comtypes". Win32 "comtypes" can be downloaded here: * http://sourceforge.net/projects/comtypes/ The MSHTML version primarily works. Reports using IE8's MSHTML engine would be appreciated.