Been looking into GUI options for nagify lately. Thought I’d give Cocoa via PyObjC a try. Learned that using PyObjC is at least just as hard as learning Objective-C from scratch. Which I can’t because of the infamous once-you-know-python-you-don’t-want-anything-else-anymore syndrome. Also, there are memory issues and I ran into some obscure failure that I can’t even recall anymore.

So, after a quick look at the even more arcane options, I’m back with PyQt4. Took me a while to figure layouting in Qt Designer out, just to notice that I still can’t build a working distribution with py2app. I’m really looking forward to when everything will be 64bit and we don’t have this multilib/universal pile of crap anymore. Yuck.

My total whackjob of a solution right now is to mutilate a PyObjC-Cocoa Xcode template into running a Qt4 app. It’s not pretty and will probably break sometime in the future, but right now I just want to get some .app out there. Qt also gives me platform independence, which I like.

I’m currently working on having nagify save Nagios data into a local sqlite database so I can generate stats from it later. Those stats will then be used in a fullscreen view mode designed for large displays. At least that’s the plan.