Which GUI?

Martijn Faassen m.faassen at vet.uu.nl
Wed Feb 23 11:54:23 EST 2000


Moshe Zadka <moshez at math.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Gerrit Holl wrote:

>> I disagree. The latest gui war was over half a year ago, and
>> wxPython was abandoned than. But it growed. I'd like to see
>> an answer to ESR's question:
>> 
>>      Why the hell hasn't wxPython become the standard GUI for Python yet?

> Here's an easy one: Python is portable. Tkinter is portable. I could code
> a Python GUI on an AIX machine with a brain dead C++ compiler in half an
> hour. I couldn't get wxWindows (the basis for wxPython) to compile on that
> C++ compiler for 2 weeks. 

Hm, earlier on you said you installed gcc on all these platforms, so that
begs the question, why not use gcc on AIX to compile wxWindows? :)

Regards,

Martijn
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