GUI programming

[Gerhard =?unknown-8bit?Q?H=E4ring?=]

* Dale Strickland-Clark <dale at riverhall.NOTHANKS.co.uk> [2002-03-31 12:31 +0100]:
> "Charl P. Botha" <cpbotha at i_triple_e.org> wrote:
> 
> >With wxPython, one has to get, configure and build wxWindows first (and this
> >does take quite a while).  
> 
> Nonsense.
> 
> 1. Download
> 2. Run Setup
> 3. Use it.
> 
> The whole operation takes less than 5 minutes.
> 
> Well - it does on Windows, anyway.
 
Obviously you've never installed glib, gtk, wxGTK then wxPython all in
/usr/local on a Unix system. Not speaking all the dependencies if wxPython if
you really want to run all of the demos. This can easily take hours.

If you're lucky, however, your distribution already provides all the required
packages in an easy-to-use package. But from the ones I know, only FreeBSD has
the most current wxPython and wxGTK versions in the ports tree. Even Debian
sid, which is quite bleeding edge, still had wxPython 2.2.7 last time I checked
(a few days ago).

Gerhard
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