gui toolkits: the real story? (Tkinter, PyGTK, etc.)

Grant Edwards grante at visi.com
Tue Oct 2 22:18:25 EDT 2007


On 2007-10-02, Chris Mellon <arkanes at gmail.com> wrote:

> PyGtk has poor cross platform support, a very large footprint (the
> largest of all these libraries)

It's larger than wxWidgets on top of Gtk?

> as well as a complicated runtime environment. It's probably
> the closest to suitable for standard library inclusion, but it
> doesn't have the binary linking exemption that wxPython does
> (theres some question as to how needed that is for Python
> code, though) and it's got no compelling API advantage over
> Tk.

I like the fact that it doesn't include a whole extra scripting
language interpreter along with it the way tkinter sucks in Tcl.

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