[Tutor] Finally finished my currency exchange program

[Joel Goldstick]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Alan Gauld <alan.gauld at btinternet.com>wrote:

>
> "Eddie" <eddie9139 at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:AANLkTimXrAJnBvj9eGx4DiQBWrb1LtFa9quv2fDeqNpf at mail.gmail.com...
>
>  I've finally finished my currency exchange program thanks to help from
>> this
>> list and another list. It updates the exchange rates via  an xml feed etc.
>>
>
> If you wrote it in Python why only Windows support?
>
> Virtually all Python GUI toolkits are portable across platforms, one of
> the biggest advantages of Python... And the core functions are surely
> just basic Python code?
>
> Seems like a missed opportunity.
>
> Alan G.
>
> Since this is a python tutor group, I figured you might have had earlier
discussions here about the coding of this project.  But I didn't find
anything. hmm?

Why did you decide to make this a desktop application, and not a website
application?  I'm guessing that you may have  published it for Windows only
because of issues around the installation process.  I haven't tried creating
any sort of install packages in Windows, or Linux, so I am completely in the
dark about those things.  But, by putting the application on the web,
install issues disappear, and you might get more hits on your site.


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Joel Goldstick
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