Russell E. Owen schrieb: > 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).
Having a running python interpreter under linux is the same effort as getting a JRE running. Actually due to licensing problems, python usually just ships whereas java has to be explicitly installed. From there, deploying using setuptools is easy enough IMHO. > > 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) I'm not sure if you mean both above "compared to Java" - but I won't call Swing/AWT "good" - eclipse doesn't come with SWT for nothing. And I simply don't understand the networking that works with GUI toolkits. I'm aware of some eventloop-unifications twisted does, but I never really understood the need for that - multi-threading is a problem for GUIs, not for networking. And queues are your friend. Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
