Wednesday, June 24, 2009

The open source minefield

Needed to write a GUI, nothing fancy just some data binding. Tkinter is included within Python, great! Spend a bunch of time learning tkinter and its quirks, then I am done. Now to package my work of art with py2exe to deploy under windows .... splat.

Posted messages to the py2exe mailing list and waited, and waited. I suppose I could work it out, put in some hurclian effort and figure it all out. Trouble is I just don't have that much time, and the interface wasn't that complicated. Answer, lick some wounds, rewrite the interface in HTML and write a simple web server based on one of the activestate recipes.

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