Is pwm Python MegaWidgets viable?

[gregarican]

Paul Watson wrote:

> Does pwm run well on Python 2.4?  The last release appears to be in
> 2003.  The Manning discussion forum is dead.
>
> Is there a better path to learning and producing tkInter apps?
>
>
> Has there been any discussion of wxPython becoming part of the base
> Python distro?  A requirement here is to not require download/install of
> anything other than the Python release.

I can't vouch for Python 2.4, but I used the PMW library pretty
extensively for an app that is based on Python 2.3. Tkinker itself
offers most of the basic widgets that any Tk implementation does, and
there's an online guide (can't recall the URL right now) to Tkinter
that is great for an introduction tutorial. PMW is an add-on to Tkinter
that is useful if there are specific widgets that you need that basic
Tkinter doesn't provide and you don't feel like creating them from
scratch. Just because it doesn't have a new release in the past couple
of years doesn't mean that it's truly a dead project. Perhaps it's
stabilized and there haven't been overwhelming requests for adding any
new items to it. Using PMW won't help you learn Tkinter any quicker in
any event. Just icing on the cake :-)