Boa Constructor: stable enough for production use?

[Kevin Altis]

Riaan released Boa 0.2.0 alpha yesterday, so you don't have to check it out
from cvs to get a stable version.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=1909&release_id=133431

For form builders with pure wxPython, you can use Boa, wxDesigner, and
wxGlade. Specific questions should be directed to each products mailing
list, but bringing up this question on the wxPython-users mailing list will
probably get you more responses.

http://www.wxpython.org/maillist.php

ka

"iwk" <donteventhinkaboutit_rochus at nono_vanderkleyn.com> wrote in message
news:3e21f2f5$0$94297$e4fe514c at dreader4.news.xs4all.nl...
> 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
>
>