[pygtk] anyone using pygtk for windows?

[shawn bright]

man this is great news, and thanks for the link.
yes an .exe would hit the spot, because they will also have to have the
mysql libs installed.
i don't want them to have to down load a bunch of "dependencies"

thanks for the tips,

shawn

On 1/29/07, Jarek Zgoda <jzgoda at o2.pl> wrote:
>
> > i have been writing in pygtk for over a year, but now i have a new
> > challenge. i need to write a gui app for windows. This will be an
> > admin form that will allow a distributer to update a database.
> > Well, we have three distributors, none have any experience in
> > linux, so i need to write this for windows.
> > My question is, can this be done ? will a pygtk app run on windows
> > if they install gtk libs and python ? if so, are there any gotchas
> > i might need to be aware of ? lastly, is this going to be a major
> > ordeal ? i have most of the code written for linux, and could
> > translate easier than start from scratch. But, if it is going to be
> > too big a hassle, i suppose i could avail myself to learn wxWidgets
>
> PyGTK applications run fine on Windows and the rumours on instability are
> gratly exagerated (in fact, nothing runs stable on Windows). During last 2
> years I developed my PyGTK app on Windows, because I had only intermittent
> access to Linux machine. The only drawback is somewhat ugly look on unsty=
led
> Windows (i.e. on W2k), but things get much better with PyGTK 2.10.x.
>
> Distribution might be a bit of hassle, but people from Gajim project (
> http://www.gajim.org/) do this succesfully, so it's perfectly possible.
>
> Cheers
> Jarek Zgoda
>
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