From: Chuck Esterbrook [mailto:ChuckEsterbrook@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 4:22 PM
To: wxPython-users@lists.wxwindows.org
Subject: [wxPython-users] Shareware?Is it feasible to write shareware apps for public consumption by MS
Windows users?Based on some digging it appears that:
* technically, a bona fide MS Windows app with normal look
and feel can
be created with wxPython. Yay!
* technically, a normal MS Windows installer can be created that
encapsulates all the required components. Yay!Based on my recent forays I have determined:
* wxPython has sufficient maturity, docs, demo code and mailing list
enthusiasts to support the creation of truly sophisticated
applications. Yay!Are there any issues license-wise?
Check out the wxWindows license. It seems to be BSD like, IIRC.
And has anyone ever done this?
wxDesigner is shareware like.
I'm somewhat concerned that the minimum bound of the
installer seems to
be in the 2.5 MB area. I'm wondering if that could be surmounted by
actually tweaking things out of wxWindows that weren't used
in the app.
I doubt it. The real kicker with wxWindows is the wxwindows dll
(wxmsw240h.dll), which weighs in at 3186688 bytes on my machine.
Unfortunately wxEverything is stuffed into one DLL. There was talk about
breaking up the various DLLs but it would be a good bit of work.
jw
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