wxPython Not Ready for Commercial Use

[Cliff Wells]

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 23:33 +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:

> If wxPython has problems they lie elsewhere... I was just trying to
> install bittorrent on a Linux box tonight, and bittorrent requires
> wxPython, so I _did_ just go through the very messy and lengthy build
> process (./configure-make-sudo make install only does the wxWidgets
> part, then you have to edit config.py before you run python setup.py to
> build -- and the docs explaining this are quite lengthy)... only to find
> in the end that bittorrent just doesn't like the current release of
> wxPython, crashing loudly pretty soon.  I guess incompatible changes
> have been made, or programming errors, or something.  Guess I should try
> again with another, older, stable release of wxPython, but it's a bit
> late to restart tonight.

Most likely it requires wxPython 2.4.x.  2.5.x, while recommended, is
considered the development branch and there have been a few incompatible
changes made (although most of them can be easily worked around iirc.

Regards,
Cliff

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Cliff Wells <clifford.wells at comcast.net>