On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:21:29 +0200, "Ville M. Vainio" <vivai...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 5:38 PM, Phil Thompson > <p...@riverbankcomputing.com> wrote: > >> The selection of a language happens much earlier than the selection of a >> GUI toolkit. A GUI toolkit is (or at least should be) a relatively minor > > Sometimes, the gui toolkit is selected for you. This may not be true > for pc software, but my personal interest here lies in mobile device > development, and Maemo / S60 platforms. Both are moving to have Qt as > the primary native toolkit, and that's really what your program should > use to "integrate natively" with the rest of the gui (read: it's most > likely that you will be paid for a project that requires you to use > Qt). Traditionally, the sdk's to both of these platforms have been > free-as-in-beer-for-commercial-development, and that expectation may > still remain - someone could with few hundred developers under him > could make a "strategic" choice based on that alone. I'm not > necessarily arguing that it's a good choice, but it's just something > that may happen, given the basic human psychology (cheapskate > knee-jerk reaction). > > This is lots of will/would/could, but that's because Qt is just > "starting to happen" in my universe. Mostly in C++, but I think it > would be nice if Python gained a strong foothold here as well.
Now that you have qualified your context I can agree with you. But, for the moment at least, that's a very small part of the developer base. Phil _______________________________________________ PyQt mailing list PyQt@riverbankcomputing.com http://www.riverbankcomputing.com/mailman/listinfo/pyqt
