On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 7:35 PM, james hedley <[email protected]> wrote: >> i use it all the time, for GUI application development > > Yeah debugging/development. What I was getting at was that this kind of > issue would look bad if you were *deploying* desktop apps, but since it's > really a development tool, not so much.
i intended to use it as an platform for a replacement for Archlinux's AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38359 https://github.com/xtfxme/aur-pyjs/tree/pmvc-refactor ... but i get bored rather quickly and move on to other things :-(, and i decided that i actually didn't want a web interface -- I've since made use of FUSE instead. however, the mostly defunct project does demonstrate how a single codebase can be effective as both a desktop or web application; the only difference between the two is a small (~15 line) bootstrap file for each one to set the proper context: webapp: https://github.com/xtfxme/aur-pyjs/blob/pmvc-refactor/lib/gui/aur.py desktop: https://github.com/xtfxme/aur-pyjs/blob/pmvc-refactor/bin/local.py the barrier is a little high right now to deploy desktop apps ... maybe if a *COUGH* gobject port is possible, or pythonwebkit is merged, or similar, it will be more viable (ie, people don't have to build anything). -- C Anthony
