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Black Adder and PyQt

Frank Miles fpm at u.washington.edu
Mon Mar 4 12:07:29 EST 2002 
In article <mailman.1015217468.19186.python-list at python.org>,
Wayne Pierce  <wayne at mishre.com> wrote:
>
>>>From the BlackAdder readme file:
>>>The license of the Beta version prevents run-time components of the
>>>Business Edition being distributed with your applications. This 
>>>restriction will be removed when the final version is released.
>>>
>>>
>> 
>> Yes, but _when_ will the final version be released?
>
>Bad form!  You need two __'s on each side! ;)
>
> > Not that I have anything I might want to distribute, but I see fro my
> > records that I paid for the beta nearly a year ago, and in that time
> > there has been one update, last summer, and since then a resounding
> > silence. It would be a shame if the project just sputtered and died.
> > There are all sorts of unselfish reasons for hoping that some
> > company (or kompany) figures out a way to make money from Linux
> > sometime.
>
>Same here.  I haven't had a need to distribute the software I wrote yet 
>without source but I may have to in the future; unfortunately I didn't 
>catch that clause in the readme or I probably wouldn't have bought BA.
>
>Anyone out there have recommendations on a good IDE with form designer, 
>that's not Beta?  Nothing too fancy...I've tried wxDesigner, but 
>couldn't figure out that spacer stuff for the life of me.

I found glade more "intuitive" for me, once I got started.  Biggest
downside is that if your app needs to run on Windows, getting libglade
to run on WinXX platforms can be a pain.  On Linux, it's a snap.  With
Qt, you just pay...

	-frank
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