Greg: almost all Windows machines already have a .NET runtime installed. I have not seen one in years that did not. I don't think there would be any problem with expecting it. One thing to check on would be startup speed. Pure CLI programs are notoriously slow to bring up the first screen.
The other advantage to doing this is ease of porting the package to IronPython. This is not a small thing, since the MONO runtime also works on several portable devices (android and iphone) it would potentially bring PyGUI to portable platforms. I had never looked at pythonnet until your message, but I have to say it looks good. The installation is clunky, but that could be fixed by cloning the code, if worst came to worst. I expect it will get better with time. -- Vernon On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Gregory Ewing <[email protected] > wrote: > Until recently I didn't think it was possible to use .NET > libraries from CPython, but then I came across this: > > http://pythonnet.sourceforge.net/ > > Using this, it looks like it should be possible to create > a PyGUI implementation based on Windows Forms. This has the > potential to solve a number of headaches, as it appears > to be a considerably more capable library than base win32. > > The downside is that 2k and XP users may need to install > a .NET runtime. How would people feel about that? > > -- > Greg > > This email may be confidential and subject to legal privilege, it may > not reflect the views of the University of Canterbury, and it is not > guaranteed to be virus free. If you are not an intended recipient, > please notify the sender immediately and erase all copies of the message > and any attachments. > > Please refer to http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/emaildisclaimer for more > information. > _______________________________________________ > Pygui mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pygui >
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