On Jun 1, 1:43 pm, Gilles Ganault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 21:27:30 +0900, "Ryan Ginstrom" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For your stated needs, I'd advise checking out IronPython or Python.NET > >(which allow use of .NET GUI libraries). > > Thanks but I forgot to say that I'd rather not use .Net because > deployment/updates are too problematic for our audience. > > .. that's assuming that a GUI Python can install/update itself as > easily as eg. Delphi, which is where I could be wrong :-/
Windows Forms (.NET) is one of the best looking Windows GUI toolkits I've seen. It is also generally very easy to use from IronPython. We haven't had a problem with deployment / updates with our customers [1]. Problems you anticipate may be historical. .NET 2 has been pushed out by Windows update for quite some time and it is *likely* that your target computers already have it installed. Further, the latest release of .NET (.NET 3.5 SP1 - still be in Beta) includes tools for building 'msi' installers which either bundle the parts of .NET you need - or handle the download and install of .NET on the client machine (which approach you take is up to you - and obviously they *don't* depend on having .NET already installed on the target machine). You can see some of the details on Scott Guthrie's blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/05/12/visual-studio-2008-and-net-framework-3-5-service-pack-1-beta.aspx Scroll down to the parts about ".NET Framework Client Profile Setup Package": .NET 3.5 SP1 introduces a new setup package option for developers building .NET client applications called the ".NET Framework Client Profile". This provides a new setup installer that enables a smaller, faster, and simpler installation experience for .NET client applications on machines that do not already have the .NET Framework installed. And also ".NET Framework Setup Bootstrapper for Client Applications": .NET 3.5 SP1 introduces a new "bootstrapper" component that you can use with client applications to help automate making sure that the right version of the .NET Framework is installed. The bootstrapper component can handle automatically downloading and installing either the .NET Framework Client Profile or the full .NET Framework Setup Package from the Internet if your machine doesn't have either of them installed. The boostrapper can also automatically handle upgrading machines that have a previous version of the .NET Framework installed. All the best, Michael Foord http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/ [1] At Resolver Systems: http://www.resolversystems.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
