Hi Pete,
On Jan 23, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Pete wrote:
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Personally I have a great application and I don't care about the 'market' - I don't owe them anything, especially the sheepish ones.
My app' is currently very simple and I am going to continue developing it on the greatest client platform available using the very best tools. I have now decided that portability in the context of evolving a piece of work is just a distraction. When a better (more productive and elegant) OS than OS X shows up I will jump ship.
I understand your position, but I think you're lucky if the above factors are the biggest concerns you have when developing an app. You get to develop the app you want, targeting your OS and target audience based largely on what you yourself prefer.
However, many, many people don't have that flexibility. (Myself included.) They need to target other OSes in order to be successful. I wasn't arguing that you should use wxPython; instead, I was arguing that particularly the Python maintainers shouldn't be talking down the product as only for 'throwaway' software and the like, because while it may not meet your, or their, needs/criteria, that doesn't mean the software is useless to everybody. It's one thing to say "I don't need it" or "this isn't for me", and another entirely to say "this can only be used to write throwaway apps/code". After all, I've seen several people argue that Python, being a scripting language, is useless for writing 'real' code. But it seems to work very, very well for me, so either those people are wrong, or everything I write isn't 'real' code.
Thanks,
Kevin
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