Future Python Gui?

[Kevin Walzer]

bcwhite at pobox.com wrote:
>> I'd say that the best bet is to learn swig and similar
>> bridging, expanding, and embedding mechanisms.
>> Python GUI programming is likely to involve either
>> python hooking into frameworks like Cocoa, Qt, or
>> wxWidgets, python embedded in frameworks
>> like Java or .NET, or flavors of python used
>> as domain-specific languages in applications such as
>> emacs, vim, and OpenOffice.org.
> 
> If this were just a tool for me, it wouldn't matter.  My concern is
> distribution.  If anybody who wants to run my software then they also
> have to go through all the trouble to install these extensions, none
> of which seem to have decent instructions.  I'm an old-time hack and I
> have trouble getting them to work.  A simple user won't have a chance!
> 

This is what deployment tools such as py2app or py2exe are for--to wrap 
all the bits up into a simple package that the end user just installs, 
without worrying about dependencies.

-- 
Kevin Walzer
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