[wxPython-users] wxpython application vista

[Christopher Barker]

Eric Ongerth wrote:
>     Is it as easy as changing my import conventions from "import wx" to
>     "from
>     wx import TextCtrl", or is it much more complicated than that?
> 
> It's got to be that easy!  If it isn't, then that would be a very much 
> needed change.  That sounds like essential Python behavior.

It's much more complicated than that. wxPython relies on the bindings, 
which depend on the dlls. Even with a non-monolithic build, there are a 
lot of cross-dependencies.

It SHOULD be possible to at least remove some of the "big things" like 
aui, xrc, grid, etc, but that's not trivial either. Also, almost 
everything relies on wxCore, which has lots of basic building blocks 
like wxString, etc. Last I looked, the "extra" stuff was kind of small 
compared to the core stuff anyway.

This has come up a lot, and no ones done it yet. I think that's because 
in truth, it's really just disk space and network bandwidth, which 
really are cheap compared to the work required to change the way it now.

For things like wxStandardPaths, maybe there should just be a pure 
python implementation -- ideally in the standard lib.

-Chris


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