Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:14:18 +0100
From: Jachym Cepicky <jachym.cepicky@gmail.com>
Subject: [GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] v.coordinate.sh - improve this
script?
To: Luca Casagrande <luca.casagrande@gmail.com>
Cc: grass-user@lists.osgeo.org, Michael Barton
<michael.barton@asu.edu>, GRASS developers list
<grass-dev@lists.osgeo.org>
Message-ID: <1201367658.7424.12.camel@kocour>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"Hi,
Luca Casagrande pÃÅ¡e v Pá 25. 01. 2008 v 13:34 +0100:
Hi Michael,
I have started studying python more deeper for using it in pyWPS
cool, we need more people
We have to move to WPS 1.0.0, so I'm
looking forward to see your codeand
for creating new Qgis modules (with QT).
Just for knowing, is there any reason for using wxWindow instead of Qt
for the new GUI?
is it a matter of license?Thank you very much
Luca
As others were mentioning before me, it was discussed several times ago.
When I started to experiment with Python GUI in GRASS, I took Gtk,
because of I simply liked it. Then Michael started to experiment, mainly
on Mac OS and wxWidgets seemed the best choice for him. Others were not
complaining. When we asked around, how the best approach should be, we
were told to use JavaMaybe next GRASS GUI will be Qt
should be here at least as long, as the Tcl/Tk was.Just my 2 cents
Jachym
A couple of other historical tidbits. When we started planning for the new
GUI, QT still had licensing issues on Windows (solved now I think) and GTK
lacked a Mac native version (still a problem AFAIK).
With wxPython, we got the richness of the wxWidgets platform with the
familiarity and ease of programming for Python. For the record, I'd never
heard of it before starting the research and open discussion of a next
generation GUI platform.
So far, it's been quite good. As Jachym says, it will probably have a pretty
long life cycle in GRASS--especially if people start creating Python
scripts. Like Jachym, I've very happy to hear that you are learning Python
too. Unlike TclTk (and maybe QT), I think we'll have a pretty good group of
Python programmers for GRASS.
Michael
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