On Saturday 15 December 2001 11:16, Tim Churches wrote: > Horst, > > I'm seriously considering using wxPython to develop a front end to an > open source exploratory data analysis system I am working on (which > itself is written in Python, alpha release in a few months). My only > hesitation is the relative dificulty of installing wxPython and all its > prerequisites, especially on Linux/Unix. The relatively poor > documentation I can cope with, but endless support questions from > would-be users who can't manage to install of the components would send > me around the twist. Have you had any problems with this so far with > GnuMed? Any other reservations about wxPython?
You can simply compile a custom version of Python including xwPython (!) if you don't mind a bit of bloat on your harddisk in order to save support trouble. At present, I am using py2exe to deploy some minor tools to customers where the lot (my script, python and wxPython) are compiled into a single binary executable which than is wrapped into a "setup.exe" On Linux, you can do a similar thing just by wrapping the lot including your customized wxWindows into a rpm (and deb) package, where the install script sets the paths accordingly i order not to interfere with other installations. As wxPython is nicely backwards compatible, you are almost never wrong by simply replacing an older version with a newer one. Thus, no reservations about wxPython other than that the wx library does not support arbitrary tab orders yet. Horst
