[KLUG Members] No perl experts out there have worked with Tk?

[Ralph M. Deal]

Adam Williams wrote:

>>I've never used Perl/Tk.  I've never heard anyone say many good things
>>about it.
>>I have used Gtk-Perl, which works pretty nicely, though you need to be
>>able to read the Gtk+ documentation (written in C), and translate into
>>the appropriate calls in Perl.  For Perl programmers, Gtk-Perl seems
>>to have more of a future than Perl/Tk.  For the unfamiliar, Gtk+ is
>>the Gimp toolkit, which is quite popular for doing GUI C programming
>>on Linux (including of course, the Gimp itself).  There isn't really
>>any active work on the Gtk+ for Windows.
>>
> 
> ?  We use quite a few gtk apps on Windows: Dia, xsane, etc...


...

>>I've done a few significant projects with wxPython, with good success.
>>Python is much easier to use than Perl (and no, I am not an anti-Perl
>>
> 
> Yes, I like python.  Coming from C it is more familiar than Perl,  and
> *golly* is there anything it can't do to XML.

...

> I'd recommend GTK, which has both a good perl and python binding library.
> It has proven to be nicely cross platform for us.


I'm not sure what packages I need to have installed to run gtk with 
python.  I have both pygtk and pygtk2 installed but their descriptions 
are nearly the same despite different sizes.  Do I need both?

	Ralph