On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 01:08 -0700, Paul Rubin wrote: > Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > application. End users shouldn't need to worry about installing third > > party packages (or even Python for that matter). Tools such as py2exe > > and Inno installer make this pretty simple on Windows, and py2app on > > OS/X accomplishes the same. It should be irrelevant to end users what > > libraries or tools you use to develop the app. > > What if I want to be able to write multi-platform applications without > having to deal with OS-specific packaging schemes for every OS that I > want to run on? Even if I only want to run on Linux, I don't see how > to package a wxPython application to minimize end user hassle. The > only realistic GUI's to use are Tkinter or HTTP/HTML over a local > socket talking to a user-provided web browser.
Hm. That's odd, I thought I had just finished a fairly sophisticated app that runs on Windows, Linux and Mac OSX using wxPython... I must be mistaken. Regardless, if you are doing cross-platform work for *end-users* you had better be prepared for a little pain as there is no magic bullet. As far as Linux only apps go... if a Linux user can't figure out how to install wxPython (which is provided in several common packaging formats), then I suspect they are used to pain. The bottom line is this: some people like Tk, some wxPython. Each has advantages and disadvantages. But to claim that you *can only* do something in one or the other only demonstrates that you haven't really tried. Regards, Cliff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.develix.com :: Web applications and hosting :: Linux, PostgreSQL and Python specialists :: -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
