[maemo-developers] New release of Python2.5 for Maemo (r0.4-11)

[From: Antonio Orlando]

There are shadings, not just white and black. When the average user, not a  
C litterate, has some logic mind and easy ways to sit down and make that  
useful idea get shape on the device, without having to study fulltime for  
months and become a "real" coder for that, that sparkle in mind can happen  
and he/she really sits down.
The "easy ways to sit down and make" can be:

1) a language like Python working without problems;
2) easy and easily findable step-by-step tutorials explaning how to have a  
self-written Python script running on the device;
3) easily findable sample scripts explaining how to achieve common stuff;

There is a hidden (maybe not great, but at least self-useful) coder in  
every logic-minded user.
Those at INdT are doing a great job, even if we're still far from the  
moment things will be clean enough to make those users smoothly think "I  
can do that".

-- 
Antonio


> Not to disparage the goal of full Python support or anything, but I
> daresay the average user buys the tablets for their web browsing ability
> et al, not for the opportunity to open up an xterm and start hacking
> Python.
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel