New development windows, IronPython or PythonWin

Bruno Desthuilliers bdesth.quelquechose at free.quelquepart.fr
Fri Mar 24 17:12:26 EST 2006


Dan a écrit :
>>>IronPython is currently nowhere near production quality. I would not
>>>recommend it.
> 
>  I realise its in beta. But long term, do you think that the win32com,
> win32gui etc... will have no support because everyone jumps on the
> Microsoft bandwagon? Aren't the windows support extensions supported
> primarily by one guy, Mark Hammond? As a developer, this seams to leave
> me with a vulnerability long term. Thanks for the advise.
> 

Well, from what we've seen so far, I'd rather rely on open source 
software than on proprietary one. An oss project lives as long as 
someone is willing to maintain it, and anyone can pick it up. And I 
wouldn't count on "every one jumping on MS wagon" neither.

Just my cents...



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