Trent Mick: January 2006

Ruby the Komodo

Apparently the San Diego Zoo has a Komodo dragon named Ruby. I declare that girl the mascot of the recent Komodo (IDE) release that added Ruby support. Brilliant. (Thanks for emailing us, Tony!) Bonus points if you noticed that Ruby's tongue is (atypically) yellow -- similar to our Komodo icon's eye. I wonder if they have a Komodo dragon named pearl.

tags: activestate, komodo

ActivePython 2.4.2.10 is released

  python skeleton 
  Originally uploaded by trento.

ActivePython 2.4.2.10 is out!

Highlights include:

• Early support for Mac OS X for Intel platform (macosx-x86).
• Upgrade to PyWin32 build 207 on Windows/x86
• Upgrade Tkinter to Tcl/Tk 8.4.12
• Support for Windows/x64 (win64-x64). Note that PyWin32 has not been ported to 64-bit Windows so this build does not include PyWin32.
• Support for Linux/x86_64 (linux-x86_64)
• Fixed a problem on Mac OS X/PowerPC that unintentionally created a dependency on Fink for the "bz2" and "curses" extensions. (Thanks, Bob!)
• The Windows "debug libraries" package now allows installation into non-ActivePython Python installations of the same version. This was requested by Dave Abrahams for the Boost folks.
• Changed Intel 32-bit architecture platform name from "ix86" to "x86", changing package names for some ActivePython builds.

See the announcements for full details.

tags: activestate, python