PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

lkcl luke.leighton at googlemail.com
Tue Oct 14 06:57:17 EDT 2008


On Oct 13, 9:12 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> lkcl wrote:
> > On Oct 11, 11:17 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre... at udel.edu> wrote:
> >> lkcl wrote:
>
> >> I got the impression that there is currently no Windows binary
> >> available.  Correct?  If not, perhaps someone trustworthy will someday
> >> donate one.
>
> > sorry, terry, you deleted a bit too much context :)
>
> I was referring to this at pyjd.org:
>
> Pre-built amd64 .debs are available for download, providing
> pywebkitgtk-1.0, libwebkit-1.0-2 and libwebkit-dev, here:
>
>      * Download libwebkit-dev, libwebkit-1.0-2 and pywebkitgtk-1.0

 thanks for confirming, i thought so.

> and this
>  >> If not, perhaps someone trustworthy will someday donate one.
>
> was my acknowledgement that a Windows binary is not trivial

 ha ha - i found that out :)

> and that I
> don't expect one from you after all the nice work you have done.

 thanks.

> [compiling with mingw32]
>
> > why the python developers didn't include the patches, and keep them up-
> > to-date, isn't clear.
>
> Mostly likely because no one who uses mingw32 has volunteered to become
> the mingw32 Python developer who would update such patches to current
> Python (now 2.6/3.0) and support them by responding to bug reports and
> by upgrading them to 2.7/3.1 in the next few years.

 *nods head side-to-side*... yeahh, good point :)




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