Wheel-reinvention with Python

[Cliff Wells]

On Mon, 2005-08-01 at 08:53 +0100, phil hunt wrote:

> I was under the impression -- from reading this ng -- that wx was 
> buggy on some platforms and less portable than Tkinter. Not true?

It depends on how you define "buggy" and "portable"... also "platform"
is up for grabs too ;)

On the serious side, I expect that if you are simply counting bugs,
there are probably more in wxPython.  But I'd also say that when it
comes to ratio of bugs to features, they are probably quite comparable,
even if Tk has one bug and wxPython a hundred ;)

As far as more portable, Tk probably wins hands-down.  OTOH, in
practice, very few people care about the platforms wxPython doesn't run
on (think: GTK doesn't run there either).  wxWidgets is working on a
wxUniversal port which takes a similar tack that Tk does in most cases,
that is, providing all of its own widgets based on drawing primitives,
but I have no idea how far along that is nor how long until wxPython
supports it as another target.

Regards,
Cliff

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