[BlackBerry-Python] Intro and placeholder for pending discussion

[Peter Hansen]

For those who already joined, and those just arriving or checking the 
archives and wondering where all the discussion is, I've been holding 
off asking a half dozen questions and proposing various ideas until more 
people arrive.  With 112 twitter followers for 
https://twitter.com/BBPyProject I assume there are more than the current 
7 others who've joined here who would participate.

For a brief background, check 
http://peterhansen.ca/blog/blackberry-tart-preview.html if you haven't 
already.  I whipped that up in a couple of days before San Jose, and 
have been working with it since along with very minor additions.  I'm 
actually surprised how effective it's been even in that state, to the 
point that I'm unsure whether there's any significant limitation to this 
approach, at least for my own style of programming.

I have three apps now in working states (but quite unfinished) built on 
top of this.  The basic approach is to have a thin C++ layer which 
serves almost entirely to pump JSON-encoded messages between the Python 
and the QML sides.

In other news, progress is apparently being made at getting the diffs 
for the QNX port of Python 3.2 out to the world at large, possibly via 
"us" in some fashion.  I'll hold off volunteering any more about that 
just yet primarily because I know little... but if you have questions 
about it, feel free to pipe up here since that gets into another rich 
area for discussion.

I'm hoping this list will prove more effective than Twitter or Disqus 
comments on my blog posts, in terms of providing a forum for discussion 
of the project and of the future of Python on BB10.

More to come...
-- 
Peter Hansen, P.Eng.
Engenuity Corporation