100 % portable ?

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Roger Binns <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote:
>My preferred toolkit is the wxPython wrapper around wxWidgets.
>Wherever possible it uses native widgets.   [ ... ]
>
>Just to give you some idea, in my 30,000 line program there are
>5 tests to see what platform it is running on, specifically to
>ensure appropriate defaults etc for the platform.

Sounds about right to me -- I've got about 20,000 lines of
application with six platform tests, five of which are to
work around platform-specific infelicities in wx.

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