VB-like GUI designer?

[Fred]

On 9 Aug 2004 16:06:01 -0700, simoninusa2001 at yahoo.co.uk (simo) wrote:
>py2exe is the best program for [pseudo] compiling your Python app, and
>bundling all the necessary DLLs etc. together on Windows. I've used
>py2exe with PyQt/wxPython sucessfully

OK, I'll give it a closer look then. I don't care about decompiling,
but simply to find a way to easily deploy Python + wxWidgets + our app
on bare Windows hosts.

>InnoSetup is an excellant installation package program that can take
>the output of py2exe (or whatever) and make a Setup.exe, it's not MSI
>mind you, but is free

Yup, it's a nice app. I prefer to use NSIS because it has a scripting
language, though.

>IMHO a *machine code* compiler is what is really holding pack Python
>adoption on the desktop by a lot of companies

I read somewhere that the very roots of Python (being a dynamic
language?) make it difficult to write a compiler that outputs machine
code. But then, it seems pretty easy to call DLLs from Python, so I'll
just write the number crunching parts in PowerBasic if Python proves
to be too slow for this kind of thing.

>You could wait for IronPython (or MS Visual Python.NET as it will
>probably become!) if you want a standalone binary.....

But then, I was investigating whether there's an alternative to VB to
write GUI apps in Windows as easily and productively, so am a bit
reluctant to go the .Net way :-)

Thx a lot
Fred.