On Nov 13, 1:47 pm, "Russell E. Owen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Michel Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > In our company we are looking for one language to be used as default > > language. So far Python looks like a good choice (slacking behind > > Java). A few requirements that the language should be able cope with > > are: > > > * Database access to Sybase. > > This seems to be available for python, but the windows-binaries for > > the library > > are not available. Self-Compiling them proved to be non-trivial (As > > always > > on windows). > > * Easy GUI creation. > > Solved using PyQt. > > * Cross Platform (Linux + Windows). > > Again, PyQt, solves this > > * Easy deployment. > > Solved using py2exe + innosetup > > How do you deploy python on linux? The only solution I know of is > pyinstaller and I never could get it to work for me on linux (I never > bothered to try on Windows since I already had py2exe doing what I > needed).
The wxPython users seem to create RPMs and Debs. (http:// www.wxpython.org/download.php) You might find these articles interesting as well: http://docs.python.org/dist/dist.html http://www.linux.com/feature/118439 http://docs.python.org/dist/creating-rpms.html > > In my opinion this is one of Python's few weaknesses compared to Java. > Others that come to mind are: > - Lack of a built-in networking library that works with GUI toolkits > (use Twisted Framework and hope it continues to be supported) > - Lack of a good built-in GUI toolkit (but there are several good > alternatives including Qt) > > > * Charting (Histograms, Line charts, bar charts, pie charts, ...) > > I am currently looking into PyQwt, which looks promising. > The wxPython user's group mentions charting quite a bit. I think they use matplotlib among others. You might contact them for suggestions as well. Mike > HippoDraw is very good. I am not familiar with PyQwt so I cannot compare > them. > > -- Russell -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
