Re: Issues of state (was: Tkinter or wxpython?)

2007-08-09 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) writes: Others have answered this at other levels. In elementary terms, there truly is a difference, Paul, and one that's widely reified: a desktop client-server application typically

Re: Issues of state (was: Tkinter or wxpython?)

2007-08-08 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) writes: application in the web app model (I haven't even touched on the whole stateless HTTP being mapped to a stateful environment issue, or the need to manage the local web server) actually buys you anything. I . Go ahead: touch on

Re: Issues of state (was: Tkinter or wxpython?)

2007-08-08 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Paul Rubin http:/...nvalid wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) writes: application in the web app model (I haven't even touched on the whole stateless HTTP being mapped to a stateful environment issue, or the need to manage the local web server) actually buys you anything. I . Go

Re: Issues of state (was: Tkinter or wxpython?)

2007-08-08 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul Rubin http://[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . . . I'm not sure what you're getting at in this context. You can write a desktop app where the window system communicates with a gui toolkit through

Re: Issues of state (was: Tkinter or wxpython?)

2007-08-08 Thread Paul Rubin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Laird) writes: Others have answered this at other levels. In elementary terms, there truly is a difference, Paul, and one that's widely reified: a desktop client-server application typically listens through one socket, which therefore constitutes an index of the

Issues of state (was: Tkinter or wxpython?)

2007-08-07 Thread Cameron Laird
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: . [scores of lines of vigorous debate] . . Moreover, if you *don't* need global access or zero-deployment (zero-deployment is