John A.M. Darnell wrote:

> I stumbled across a freeware version of widgets called wxWidgets  
> which may
> be used in Perl and Python.  Is this a dependable package, or is it  
> buggy?

I believe it's a good choice if you're doing cross-platform  
development. Qt may also be worth checking out, though the licensing  
isn't as liberal (GPL or commercial vs. wx's relaxed LGPL variant).  
And don't forget Tk, although I have the impression it's not as good  
on Mac OS as other platforms.

OTOH, if you're doing Mac-only development then Cocoa is probably the  
natural choice. For Perl and Python bridges, see PerlObjCBridge/ 
Camelbones and PyObjC; for Ruby see RubyCocoa. I've used PyObjC a bit  
and it's very good.

HTH

has
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