On Jan 25, 9:29 am, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Just trying to sift the BS from the real issues > > Heres a list of the issues relating to GUI toolkits
Finally someone who knows what the argument is really about! Thanks rusi! > Look There is no doubt wxPython has better look and feel. (+1 wx) > Nativity-1 (as in apps look like other apps on the OS) Again (+1 wx) > Nativity-2 (as in uses 'bare-metal' and not a separate interpreter) Well Tk uses a separate interpretor so (+1 wx) > Themeing (ttk) Yes Tk has themes now. Not sure about how useful they are and what wx offers so (+0 both) > Efficiency (extra interpreter) Well wx is by far more efficient (+1 wx) > Cross Platform Wx is cross platform but has some warts. We need to create an abstraction API to insulate the new users from segfaults and make wx a safe cross platform GUI so (+1 Tkinter) > Stability (crashes on some OSes) Wx is stable but does has some warts as is. (+1 Tkinter) > Programmability Wx needs a better API whereas Tkinter is ok (+1 Tkinter) > Accessibility Well we know Tkinter in not accessable (+1 wx) > i18n (+1 wx) > Availability of gui builder +0 both > Licence Tkinter is completely open source and wx is LGPL. Some find this to be a problem however i don't (+0 both) Tkinter: 3 wxPython: 6 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
