Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 00:59 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote: > >> I don't particularly like Tkinter, but it seems to me that it's pretty >> much won. It seems to be installed on every desktop platform along >> with Python. That means that if I want to distribute GUI apps, I'm >> going to cause the least headache for my end users by writing them in >> Tkinter. > > By this argument, we should just give up and use Visual* on Windows.
Not for me - my end users don't run Windows. Well, some of them may, but for those, my distribution is even easier to use than the ones you build with py2exe. > The least headache for end users comes from properly packaging your > 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. And what do I use to bundle my application for Unix? Most of the things I build get installed on Unix servers. <mike -- Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list