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This isn't intended as a dig at you, but in what world should an "Install Kivy" page take ~10 screens of text to display? If my goal is to build a simple Python

• gcanyon 3y ago
  I'll add: the "getting started" collection of pages where I found that "install kivy" monstrosity then goes on to an "A first app" page, which...doesn't walk you through building your first app. Instead, it links to a page in a different collection of pages. And that page describes how to build a Pong app (too complex to be a "build my first app" -- there's a reason to start with "Hello World")...except it doesn't, it says that it assumes you already know how to create a Kivy application, and refers you to another page if you don't. And that page does "Hello World, but poorly.
  • gcanyon 3y ago
    Okay, one more and I'll shut up. The app is unsigned (on MacOS) so you can't double-click or command-O it -- you therefore have to right-click and select Open, and then acknowledge the dire warning about running unsigned code. I don't see any mention of this on the over-long install page, so anyone who doesn't know how to run unsigned code on a Mac is out of the game immediately. And after all that, the app doesn't run. So yeah. I put off learning python for years because of this ridiculousness. Finally I decided to just bite the bullet, because it just isn't getting any better.