Wheel-reinvention with Python

[Paul McNett]

Torsten Bronger wrote:
> Hallöchen!
> 
> Paul Rubin <http://phr.cx@NOSPAM.invalid> writes:
> 
> 
>>Ed Leafe <ed at leafe.com> writes:
>>
>>
>>>But since UIs are incredibly complex beasts, we've chosen to
>>>tackle one at a time, and after looking at them all and
>>>considering different issues, we chose wxPython as the best
>>>toolkit for creating platform-independent apps.
>>
>>How on earth did you decide that, since tkinter actually runs out
>>of the box when you install Python on most platforms, and wxPython
>>doesn't?
> 
> 
> I can't really understand your hostility towards non-Tkinter
> toolkits.  In the case of wxPython, it's part of SUSE, which is
> probably also true for Fedora and Mandriva.  Installing is as easy
> as selecting a checkbox.  This covers a very great deal of Linux
> users.  On Windows you have to call an exe file.

I'm at a loss too: on Debian, it is a simple:

sudo apt-get install wxpython

On Redhat, you download the RPM and:

rpm -i

On Windows and Mac, you download the package and run through the wizard.

Admittedly, installing from source is more difficult than any other 
project I've found, but still doable.

Tkinter was a contender, but unfortunately while it is easy to use, it 
doesn't provide a modern GUI look and feel. That was a showstopper, at 
least for me.

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Paul McNett
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