[wxPython-users] Cleaning Up wxPython Installations

[Christopher Barker]

Rich Shepard wrote:
>   I'd appreciate clarification. Is wxGTK incorporated into wxWidgets? If I
> have the former, do I need the latter? I'm trying to understand the
> relationships among these two and wxPython.

wx supports multiple back-ends -- you need one of them. wxGTK is the 
back-end built on the GTK toolkit, and the most common and robust on 
*nix + X11 systems (really the only one really production-ready for 
*nix). The other primary ones are wxMSW and wxMac, for Windows and Mac.

wxPython is a wrapper around wxWidgets, so if you have wxPython, you 
have one of wxMac, wxGTK, or wxMSW, and it you're running linux, you 
have wxGTK.

-Chris




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