Future of PythonWin?

Cameron Laird claird at starbase.neosoft.com
Wed Jun 7 19:23:22 EDT 2000


In article <393e9acf at nntp.server.uni-frankfurt.de>,
 <mlauer at trollinger-fe.rz.uni-frankfurt.de> wrote:
>Boudewijn Rempt (boud at rempt.xs4all.nl) wrote:
>> Tom <tom-main at removeme.home.com> wrote:
>
>> > I agree that MFC seems to be on the way out, but there are two things that
>> > prevent me (and some other MFC developers) from switching:
>> > 1) The CodeTools & CodeGuru sites contains TONS of peer reviewed code (in
>> > the form of messages at the end of every article) that is free, even for
>> > commercial use.  80% of this code is in the form of MFC extensions.
>> > 2) What's next?
>> > - STL?  Yes, but that's not a GUI.
>> > - ATL & WTL?  Too MS only.
>> > - wxWindows?  Only has a tiny fraction of the number of users & code that
>> > the other options have.
>> > - TCL/TK?  I've heard this is slow, and it can't create native windows' apps
>> > (users want the windows look & feel).
>> > - Java?  Again, too proprietary.
>
>> There's another option, of course. You could use Qt (and PyQt), which
>> works on Windows and Unix/X11, offers a great GUI and a good design.
>> And there are tons of programs using it you can look at & learn from.
>> (Not to mention the great documentation.)
>
>Not to forget PyGnome and PyGTK, which runs quite good on Unix/X11 and
>is evolving on Windows, BeOS and MacOS.
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... and more, which I'm slowly documenting in
<URL:http://starbase.neosoft.com/~claird/comp.lang.python/python_GUI.html>.
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