Gui Advice Needed: wxPython or PyQT ?

[Phil Thompson]

On Thursday 08 May 2003 4:43 pm, David Bolen wrote:
> Phil Thompson [mailto:phil at riverbankcomputing.co.uk] writes:
> > My experience with the commercial version of PyQt doesn't agree with
> > this.  While some organisations have licenses for dozens of
> > developers, most are single user licenses.
>
> Hmm, interesting.  I mean, technically that would imply that most
> organizations have a single developer owning all of the GUI, which
> while perhaps true, wouldn't fit our team here.  There are UI elements
> in all sort of components of our system (from embedded, to standalone
> tools, to the primary product interface) and I'm not looking to lock
> down a single developer for that - actually, I want to work harder to
> let everyone participate in all aspects of the system.
>
> Now it would be likely that simultaneous work on the UI would be much
> smaller, but the licenses seemed pretty well keyed to unique
> developers using it.

My interpretation would be different. I think most of the single user licenses 
are used where there is only one developer. (Mental note - do a customer 
survey.) They are using PyQt/Qt as a very productive way of developing small 
applications for in-house use.

It is interesting that there are a good number of large deployments and a good 
number of small deployments, but fewer medium size ones. Maybe you are right 
and the cost of the single user licenses get through without anybody 
noticing, but the medium sized ones are just big enough to start attracting 
management attention.

Phil