Hallöchen! Peter Decker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 7/30/05, Torsten Bronger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm aware of it (and there is Wax and maybe a third one). >> Actually it illustrates my point quite well: These projects are >> small and instable (Dabo has a developer basis of very few >> people, Wax has only one); they are even worse documented; they >> add another layer which slows down and requires the end-user to >> install another package; they force you to test even more GUI >> approaches. > > Well, wxPython itself is largely the work of a single person, but > I doubt that many consider that a reason to avoid it. But the developer and contributor base is much larger, so the project has reached the critical mass. > As far as your comment about 'slowing down' the app, I've found > that Dabo and pure-wxPython apps run indistinguishably. Perhaps > there are some microseconds of extra processing, but I sure > haven't noticed it. And I don't think that the comment about > installing another package is fair; *anything* outside of the > standard distribution requires that, and Dabo is no more difficult > than copying to site-packages. I didn't want to say that Dabo is bad. I just wanted to point out that its presence (and the presence of comparable projects) doesn't ease the IMO unfortunate situation with GUI toolkits for Python. Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
