[pgh-pm] Any Win32 Perl GUI advice to be had?

[Andy Grundman]

Barrie Slaymaker wrote:
> So: do you have any good, bad, or ugly recommendations based on 
> recent-ish experience with a Win32 GUI app in Perl? Simplicity and 
> stability are paramount here, this is for field techs, not the general 
> public.

Disclaimer: I am a die-hard Perl zealot, so don't flame me too bad for 
saying this. :)

IMO, you should look into wxPython before making any decisions.  It just 
seemed more mature when I compared it with wxPerl for a recent project I 
was working on.  I believe Python also has better tools to compile to 
Windows binaries, if that's something you need.  But maybe I was just 
really impressed with the massive wxPython demo app. :)

wx is certainly the right choice though, and using the Perl version may 
be just fine, too!  Both are just wrappers around the same library, so 
as long as they both have a complete API everything may just work 
exactly the same.  You could compare the memory footprint of a small 
wxPerl app vs. a wxPython app.  I know a minimal hello world app in 
wxPython eats up around 20MB.

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