Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > The question is, why do you want to reimplement this thing in Python?
The Windows support of perl/pp (a perl "compiler" similar to pyinstall) is really bad. It does not work any more with Windows 7, I still have to use Windows XP. > If the plan is to get rid of some perl and tk bugs, then it would be good > to check if the bugs exist in tkinter + python as well. It's on my checklist :-) > Tk works with Python 3. wxPython doesn't yet. > So if your porting is being done 'because I want to learn Python' then it > is probably Python 3 you want to learn, so that's a strong reason to use > tkinter. Indeed! Thanks for the warning! Then I will go with python+tk. > I'd also recommend kivy, which has the added advantage that if > somebody wants to use your app from a cellphone or a tablet, it > will just work. see: http://kivy.org/#home Is it compatible with pyinstall? My main target architecture is Windows, for which I need a standalone executable. -- Ullrich Horlacher Server und Virtualisierung Rechenzentrum IZUS/TIK E-Mail: horlac...@tik.uni-stuttgart.de Universitaet Stuttgart Tel: ++49-711-68565868 Allmandring 30a Fax: ++49-711-682357 70550 Stuttgart (Germany) WWW: http://www.tik.uni-stuttgart.de/ -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list