phil hunt wrote: > On Sun, 31 Jul 2005 12:09:48 -0700, Cliff Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 10:07 -0700, Kay Schluehr wrote: >> >>> Some other people already abandoned Python not for the worst reasons: >>> >>> http://www.kevin-walzer.com/pivot/entry.php?id=69 >> >>Being a developer requires not only a bit of brains, but quite a bit of >>tenacity as well. Apparently Kevin lacks the second. >> >>> My objection with wrappers around wrappers around wrappers is that I >>> have no hope ever watching the ground. If some error occurs, which >>> layer has to be addressed? Which developing group is reponsible? My own >>> or that of team A, team B, team C ... ? The baroque concept is >>> repulsive to me and only acceptable in case of legacy code that gets >>> wrapped around old one and is dedicated to substitute it continously. >> >>Of course, Tkinter is still a wrapper around a third party library (Tk) >>borrowed from a different language (Tcl) and written again in a third >>language (C), much the same as wxPython. > > In practise any Python GUI is going to contain code from otyher > languages since if it was coded all the way down in python it would > be too slow.
Oh, I could imagine that a MFC-like wrapper around win32gui, or another one around Xlib wouldn't be slower that wxWidgets is today. Reinhold -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
