On 10/3/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-10-03, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/2/07, Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 2007-10-02, Chris Mellon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > > > No, but it's larger than wx on top of the native API, > > A moot point for X11.
wxWidgets actually does have a raw X11 implementation, although nobody uses it so it's not well maintained. And since X11 is hardly the only platform that anyone cares about, evaluating a potential addition to the standard library across *all* platforms is important. > > > so when you average it across all platforms it's quite a bit > > larger. > > I guess that's one of the costs of portability. > Eh? The point is that wxWidgets, the more portable toolkit, is *smaller* than Gtk. It's not really related to portability as much as design considerations. Gtk is designed and intended to be used as a system library, in conjunction with many other system libraries and lots of system-level configuration. It was never written with the goal of being an application-level toolkit. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
