wxPython woes

[David Fraser]

Sridhar R wrote:
> km <km at mrna.tn.nic.in> wrote in message news:<mailman.221.1088421476.27577.python-list at python.org>...
> 
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I feel its a real pain to install wxPython from sources it goes back to install gtk+ etc . may be thats why its not yet become defacto GUI standard for python.
>>but i'd like to know if anyone has made it easy with an installer for wxPython on linux (Debian woody)? 
> 
> 
> Well, if your app. is target mainly to the UNIX platform, then you may
> want to try PyGTK - http://www.pygtk.org (basically wxPython is just
> another layer over GTK).  GTK port is available for win and mac also
> (look at gimp for eg.) - also see http://gtk-wimp.sf.net.
> 
> still, wxPython is better for apps to be run on win,mac and unix, but
> gtk+ is catching very close.

The important difference is that wxWindows and wxPython are designed to 
use real native widgets as much as possible, whereas gtk-wimp is 
basically trying to use theming to make GTK widgets look like Windows 
widgets.

David