Alan Jones wrote:
ummmm yeah, but you only need a license if you're going to sell your
application made with it and you don't want to GPL it.
If it's just inhouse (or released sold/released under gpl) then
there's no need for a license.
Cheers,
Alan.
We had to make a platform choice such as this one a few months back and
this list was very helpful in making that decision... Any way here was
our reasoning.
I'd done Perl/Tk and hadn't enjoyed the Tk experience all that much. The
second you got anywhere further that bread and butter it would all break
down.
We had Wx (http://www.wxwidgets.org/) suggested. Had done a tiny bit of
it but didn't know how it would react on a large scale project.
Qt was also suggested. At the time we were looking at QT 4.x and PyQt
3.x. So the version mismatch was a bit of a pain. Knowing PyQt 4.x was
around the corner (the only piece missing for us to use Qt) and having a
bit of prior Wx experience, we went the Wx (with python bindings) route.
Our in house guru here started writing the main application (python/wx)
while I wrote a support application on the web (python/apache). He had
issues with Wx while I had to code a form/UI framework for the web. A
few months pass... PyQt 4.x came out and I gave it a try an evening. In
the next three weeks we had moved all our code to PyQt and QT and
everything was working smoother and was simple to code than it had ever
been.
The UI designer that comes with QT may not be perfect but it is _way_
better than anything else I have every seen. The on-the-fly compiling of
.ui files makes changing the UI a breeze without ever touching a single
line of code. The Api is highly object oriented and 'fits your brain'.
As Alan said, especially if you're doing PyQt or in-house stuff, read
the license: you don't need to buy QT. So download it and have fun. You
can blame me afterwards if it doesn't work for you. If it does work out,
scotch is my thing.
Cheers,
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