Re: new sysinstall

[Steve Mynott <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Matthew Dillon wrote:

>     On the otherhand it is obvious to me that we want to make X available 
>     out of the box if we can, and X is pretty big too.  I am not against the
>     idea of including Python, but I wonder if something like TCL/TK would be
>     a better solution for the type of GUI interface we will eventually want
>     to have.  I am *NO* expert on Python, perhaps someone can comment on the
>     GUI aspects of Python verses TCL/TK ?

Python has bindings for most of the usual modern GUI libraries (QT, GTL, 
wxWindows for example) including TK itself in the form of Tkinter also 
GUI text libraries (Newt/Snack, Curses, Dialog).

I assume the installer wants to run under text, if the X setup failed, 
as well as graphic mode.

Many would argue Python is a more expressive language than TCL and fully 
object oriented with a particularly understandable syntax and shallow 
learning curve for programmers.

On the downside a base /usr/local/python-2.3 is ~40Mb (about the same 
size as Perl).  That includes a rich library including XML processing.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/lib.html

-- Steve