Dabo in 30 seconds?

[Paul Rubin]

Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> writes:
> > I am going to go ahead and throw out Dabo with all of the others that claim
> > quick development of an application. You try them and then you get bugs,
> > bugs, bugs. Or they don't compile without 16000 dependencies. Forget it. My
> > advice is to choose something, one thing, that is REAL standard, and in the
> > standard library (e.g. Tkinter).
> 
>  Sorry you feel that way. You'll miss out on really great Python
> products that aren't in the standard Library, such as Twisted,
> Zope/Plone, Dabo, and many others. ...  Python is a base. You build
> from there.

Those issues about the 1600 dependencies don't apply nearly as much to
pure Python modules (e.g. Twisted) as they do to extension modules
that require the presence of further stuff on the system.  E.g., on
Linux, to use wxPython, you need wxWidgets, which needs GTK 1.5, which
has been obsolete for years, and there are all sorts of build
conflicts when you try to compile this stuff out of the box.  I don't
know where Dabo fits in.  It does sound nice in some regards.

Pico Lisp uses an interesting approach to portable GUI's: it includes
a socket-based GUI API and a special Java applet that runs in a
browser and implements the API.  All the issues of dealing with
OS-specific window systems go away, as long as you can run a
Java-enabled browser and point it at the Pico Lisp application.  See:

   http://www.software-lab.de/down.html