Boa Constructor: stable enough for production use?

[iwk]

Hi there,

A bit off topic perhaps, but it seems to fit in the "any GUI/IDE/Form 
builder for Python?" category :-)

In my spare time I write and maintain administrative software for a 
local charity. The present applications are a rather rough mix of VB, 
Python/QT and Java/Swing apps with a PostgreSQL backend. This year we'll 
replace them by a new application for which I've just finished 
prototyping the object model in Python 2.2.2. We decided to standardize 
on Python because we're migrating to Linux (no VB) and Python proved to 
be the easiest to maintain.

But creating a rather complex GUI-app under Python with Open Source 
tools used to be far more complex then with VB or Java (JBuilder, 
Netbeans or Eclipse; doesn't really matter). And earlier experiences 
with Tkinter (klunky, ugly, no form builder), wxPython (no stable form 
builder, no Ptyhon specific documentation) and Qt (no python docs and 
lots of trouble to get it working on several Linux distributions) didn't 
exectly make me look forward to the process.

However, today I got the latest build of Boa Constructor from CVS (v 
0.1.5). It's awesome to see how much progress Riaan Booysen and his team 
have made. It seems to be feature complete, easy to use, it's  fast and 
I got an app up and running in no time. In other words, heaven send. 
This could be the environment which makes Python as easy to use as VB or 
Delphi for GUI apps.

But of course, this enthousiasm is based upon one day of playing. Can 
anyone who used Boa Constructor recently to build a more avanced app 
confirm that Boa is stable enough for "production use"?

Regards,

Iwan