On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:12 -0700, geremy condra wrote: > > * IronPython relies on the .Net environment for everything > Since .Net (effectively) depends on Windows,
100% False; not "effectively" true at all. I run [and develop] .NET applications on LINUX every day. IL and the CLR are standards. > > I don't see why that first one is so much worse than the others. Sure, it > > adds an extra dependency to installing Python for GUI programming, but > > that's no different to any other GUI toolkit: PyQt has Qt as a > > dependency, PyGtk has Gtk as a dependency, etc. (I trust you're not > > suggesting that every language needs to create its own fully-independent > > GUI toolkit that talks directly to the hardware!) > But we don't have any of those in the standard library. I just don't see why this is an issue? Every, or pretty darn close, significant Python application depends on 3rd party modules/component/libraries. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
