Future of PythonWin?

[mlauer at trollinger-fe.rz.uni-frankfurt.de]

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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