On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:37 AM, sheila miguez wrote:
> See, but this is too limited. If that's all it does then why not
> use vanilla
> python? Explain the added value for the effort it takes to adapt dabo.
> the automation has to be worth it.
I think it goes beyond automation. Python offers all of these little
goodies, each of which can do a particular part of what is needed to
create an application. There is the dbapi for data access, with
several tools that use this, each of which is a little different than
the next. There are several UI toolkits, each of which is wildly
different than the next. What Dabo does is put the best of each of
these together into a coherent package, wrapping them with a (more or
less) consistent API so that you don't have to 'switch gears' when
moving from one part of your app to the next.
Long-time Python developers have no problem navigating this terrain,
but the choices can be overwhelming for someone new to the language.
If you want to create a desktop app in Python, what do you use?
Telling people that they have a zillion choices is about the same as
telling them that they have none: it doesn't help them be productive.
-- Ed Leafe
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-- http://dabodev.com
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