Re: [Pythoncard-users] Python distribution problems

[Ed L. <ed...@le...>]

On Apr 4, 2005, at 8:43 AM, Phil Edwards wrote:

> Python and Pythoncard/wxPython/insert favourite GUI toolkit here are
> *never* going to make a huge impact on the Visual Basic market. IMHO,
> though, that's not a valid reason to stop using them.

	I'm looking at things a bit differently. Coming from the Microsoft 
world (I'm a long-time Visual FoxPro developer), I know that there is a 
growing number of VFP/VB users who are unhappy with Microsoft for the 
way they've been brushed aside in lieu of the latest Flavor of the 
Month. These people are looking to pick up something new to develop in, 
and many of them would prefer not to commit to another Microsoft tool. 
Cool tools such as PythonCard help to increase the chance that they 
move to Python instead of remaining on the Dark Side.  ;-)

	That's why if you're looking to grow your user base, it's important to 
make things as familiar as possible to those folk. They're leaving 
their former comfort zone for something foreign, and the fewer hoops 
they have to jump through, the more likely they might stick with your 
product, and evangelize it to others. So while the things you mention 
are not valid reasons for an existing PythonCard developer to *stop* 
using the tool, they would be sufficient for a new PythonCard developer 
coming from the VB world to never *start*.

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