[FEAT] wxWidgets instead of Qt

[Kochise]

Hello,

considering the potential licensing issue with Qt (been there, done that) and the size of the library, could it be possible to consider offering a wxWidgets alternative ?

There is already the official Python interfaces Phoenix that mimics what PyQt do.

Hence, minus a few tweaks and tricks, maybe a wxWidgets port might be possible with relative ease.

Your thought on this ?

Regards.

[sccolbert]

No, absolutely not. I made a wx backend when I first made Enaml, and I would rather shit in my hands and clap, than to ever do anything with wx ever again.

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 2:19 PM Kochise ***@***.***> wrote: Hello, considering the potential licensing issue with Qt (been there, done that) and the size of the library, could it be possible to consider offering a wxWidgets <https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets> alternative ? There is already the official Python interfaces Phoenix <https://github.com/wxWidgets/Phoenix> that mimics what PyQt <https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/download> do. Hence, minus a few tweaks and tricks, maybe a wxWidgets port might be possible with relative ease. Your thought on this ? Regards. — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#520>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AABBQSISCRZSUVJDLLABEZDW6SDMDANCNFSM6AAAAAAWMJ2EC4> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Kochise]

A particular reason so far ? Bad software design ? Unexpected behaviors ? Yet https://www.wxwidgets.org/ looks like a decent UI library that is used by well known and stable applications.

On the other hand, I remember having reported an issue after an untested change has been pushed into wxWidgets without care.

[MatthieuDartiailh]

I won't argue with @sccolbert I have not used wx. I would however like to mention that nothing keeps you @Kochise to implement an alternative backend in a different package (like enaml-web and enaml-native do, even though they also define different widgets).

[Kochise]

Ok, I'll look into it on my spare time, would be interesting to see how it fares.

Was curious if it was already attempted previously.

I hope it improved in a "good" way since 2013 (first enaml incarnation).

[bburan]

I've worked with wx. Discovering Qt was like a breath of fresh air and I immediately switched all my programs over. Depending on the licensing issues, would PySide be an appropriate alternative? It's LGPL.

[sccolbert]

Just as an fyi, Enaml already works with PySide out of the box.

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