GUIs - A Modest Proposal

Ethan Furman ethan at stoneleaf.us
Wed Jun 9 13:16:17 EDT 2010


Gregory Ewing wrote:
> Kevin Walzer wrote:
>> PyGUI ... certainly is *not* a lightweight GUI toolkit that could 
>> easily be incorporated into the Python core library--it instead has 
>> rather complex dependencies on both other GUI toolkits and Python 
>> wrappers of those toolkits.
> 
> I don't see how the dependencies could be regarded as "complex".
> There's more or less only one on each platform, and they're
> pretty standard accessories for the platform concerned. You could
> say there are two on Linux if you count gtk itself, but you almost
> certainly already have it these days if you're running any
> kind of desktop at all.

*Alert*  Potentially dumb question following:  On the MS Windows 
platform, Gtk is not required, just win32?

~Ethan~



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