different gui-toolkits pros/cons...

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Mon Jun 3 15:40:27 EDT 2002


Gerhard Häring wrote:
> 
> Define "fast". PyGTK loads a lot faster than wxPython or PyQt. AFAIC,
> this is because PyQt and wxPython wrap _all_ of a very large toolkit,
> that both (wxWindows and Qt) even include a lot of non-GUI stuff. This
> might be solved by trying to split the one shared library into many
> small ones, that are loaded on demand.

This has become a bit better since PyQt was split into several modules.
The problem remains, though -- Qt is a very large library, even if you
take all the extra's out.
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