Now that Bob's released py2app, I thought it might be time to get a new release of ZopeEditManager out. My local copy of the source code (now managed in an SVN repository) was built around the Xcode templates bundled with PyObjC 1.1, but I had a hankering to get back to good old-fashioned straight Python. Every time I built ZEM with Xcode, it forced so many additional frameworks and libraries along that in the end, the binary was so bloated I was afraid to release it. Now, using py2app, the binary's back down to 1.8MB, roughly the same size it was under bundlebuilder. Kudos to Bob for getting it out!

Another thing that was whispering in the back of my mind was the icon I originally made for ZEM. Recently, Brent Simmons blogged a link to new NetNewsWire icons. On his site, Wolfgang Bartelme wrote a tutorial demonstrating the use of Illustrator to make lickable, Aqua icons. Seemed simple enough (after a trip through Babelfish), and I decided to take the plunge and try it out. Here are the results:

I'd be more than happy to hear thoughts on the change.

It's been quite a while since I've made a release of ZEM (Zope.org shows that 0.9.4 was released back in May). While there have been more than a few feature requests that I'm looking forward to tackling, I was so pleased with the return of a pure Python build system, that I reworked the code a bit, cleaned up the source, threw a new icon on, and am releasing 0.9.5 (and source).