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This page describes the planning of Pyjama Editor and Shell. The Pyjama IDE is a cross-platform environment for learning about computing. This is part of the Pyjama Project.

Overview

The Pyjama interface is written in C#. This will allow any of the .NET/Mono Languages (IronPython, IronRuby, PyjamaScheme, JavaScript, F#, J#, etc) to use the API.

Development

One can program either in Visual Studio (only available on Windows) or in Mono (available on most platforms). Mono has a development environment (called MonoDevelop), but you can also use any editor. There is a free Visual Studio Express available from Microsoft. Pyjama requires Mono 2.6 and is also for free from [1].

On Linux and Mac OSX

You'll need the following:

1. On Mac OSX, you will need XCode (to give you "make").
2. Install mono-2.6 (or latest) from here. Here is a shortcut:
   1. wget http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/snapshot/snapshot_sources/mono/mono-134581.tar.bz2
   2. tar xf mono-134581.tar.bz2
   3. cd mono-134581
   4. ./configure
   5. make
   6. make install
3. Install libgdiplus from here. Here is a shortcut:
   1. wget http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/snapshot/snapshot_sources/libgdiplus/libgdiplus-129909.tar.bz2
   2. tar xf libgdiplus-129909.tar.bz2
   3. cd libgdiplus-129909
   4. ./configure
   5. make
   6. make install
4. Pyjama Sources. From the command line:

$ svn co http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/Myro/trunk/Pyjama Pyjama
$ cd Pyjama
(You might have to edit src/Makefile to change the location of Mono)
$ make

That will build and run Pyjama.

On Windows

To Just Install

Download the latest version of Pyjama from http://myro.roboteducation.org/~dblank/myro/pyjama/

Unzip, and run setup.exe.

For Development

1. You will need the .NET Compact Framework
2. You will need a Visual Studio, such as this free version: Visual Studio Express
3. Checkout the SVN directory from: http://svn.cs.brynmawr.edu/Myro/trunk/Pyjama
4. Build the Solution in that directory
5. Run it

Screen Shots

For more, see PyjamaScreenShots

Troubleshooting

Didn't build? Won't run? Send a note to: dblank AT cs DOT brynmawr DOT edu

We'll have a real issue tracking system up soon.

Links

1. Mono 2.6 Download - get the latest trunk (version 134529 as of May 21, 2009)
2. Visual Studio Express
3. .NET Framework