Looking for suggestions/advice

[Alex Tweedly]

Rodney Somerstein wrote:

>
> Another consideration is that if I switch away from Rev, I will need 
> to switch to a language other than my scripting language being used to 
> write the base application. Unfortunately neither Python or Ruby seem 
> to offer any easy way to write standalone applications with a GUI and 
> make the application easily deployable for non-developers.

I don't see any problem doing that in Python. You would build and 
distribute the app as a standalone executable, and simply "eval" the 
user scripts. There isn't, as far as I know, any easy way to build the 
standalones cross-platform, so you yourself would need access to each 
platform to build the distributable - but you could distribute through a 
standard installer mechanism (i.e. very easy for anyone to install), and 
be able to run plug-in scripts.

If you do look at Python, I'd suggest specifically looking at PythonCard 
- it has a good installer mechanism for Windows, the Mac side can be 
done but isn't so well packaged yet.

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