"Let me introduce Pippy in the style of a good news/bad
news joke. The good news about Pippy is that it allows a Python
programmer to write and run programs right on the Palm. Moreover,
with version 0.7, Pippy has gotten faster, more stable, and easier
to use. The bad news is that, so far, Pippy is still fairly
"bleeding edge" software, and a lot of the things programmers want
in a development environment are planned for later versions, not
available today. Still, Pippy gives you enough to play with now,
and enables you to do some useful things without too much effort.
When installing Pippy, first download its executables and/or
source archives. The source archive is available as a tarball,
called pippy-0.7-src.tar.gz, while the executable-only distribution
is called pippy_0_7.zip (or the same name with a .tar.gz, .sit, or
hqx extension, depending on your platform). For most users, it's
easiest to stick with the executable distribution. Let's look at
that first.
Within a Pippy executable archive, you'll find a relative
directory called ./pippy_0_7. Inside this directory are five files.
Read the README -- as always -- and check out the LICENSE and NEWS
files for the expected topics. Find files pippy.prc and pylib.prc.
These are the ones that you want to upload to your PalmOS
device."
