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[[ send to:
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wxpython-users@googlegroups.com,
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wxpython-dev@googlegroups.com,
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wx-users@googlegroups.com,
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wx-announce@googlegroups.com,
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Python-Announce-List@Python.Org
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Announcing wxPython 4.0.0a1
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https://pypi.python.org/pypi/wxPython/4.0.0a1
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I'm pleased to announce that wxPython's Project Phoenix has made it's public
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debut as wxPython 4.0.0a1, available from PyPI. Don't let the fact that it is
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marked as an "alpha" release scare you away. It is an alpha simply because
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this is the **first** in several ways:
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* It's the first real release of Phoenix, which is built on a different
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foundation than Classic wxPython was.
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* It's the first wxPython release intended to be fully available from PyPI and
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buildable/installable by pip on all of the supported platforms.
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* It's the first release for Python3 (binaries for 3.5 and 3.6 are provided,
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and building for 3.4 is still possible as well). In addition, Python 2.7
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is also supported from the same codebase, with binaries available.
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* The wheel files are fully self-contained and relocatable on the supported
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platforms, so they are installable in virtual environments without needing
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to be able to find specific versions of the wxWidgets shared libraries
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(or others) at fixed locations elsewhere in the file-system.
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* And as with most alphas, there are still a few things that are not
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finished or polished yet.
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But even with all that, many people have been using the pre-release snapshots
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of Phoenix for quite a while now, and it has been relatively stable and solid
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for them.
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What is wxPython?
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wxPython is a cross-platform GUI toolkit for the Python programming language.
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It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly
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functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a
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set of Python extension modules that wrap the GUI components of the popular
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wxWidgets cross platform library, which is written in C++. Supported platforms
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are Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and macOS, and Linux or other unix-like
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systems with GTK2 or GTK3 libraries. In most cases the native widgets are used
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on each platform to provide a 100% native look and feel for the application.
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What is wxPython Phoenix?
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wxPython's Project Phoenix is a new from-the-ground-up implementation of
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wxPython, created with the intent of making wxPython “better, stronger, faster
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than he was before.” In other words, this new implementation is focused on
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improving speed, maintainability and extensibility of wxPython, as well as
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removing most of the cruft that had accumulated over the long life of Classic
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wxPython.
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The project has been in development off and on, mostly behind the scenes, for
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many years. For the past few years automated snapshot builds have been
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available for those adventurous enough to try it, and many people eventually
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started using the snapshots in their projects, even for production releases.
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While there are still some things on the periphery that need to be completed,
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the core of the new wxPython extension modules which wrap the wxWidgets code
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has been stable for a long time now.
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Due to some things being cleaned up, reorganized, simplified and dehackified
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wxPython Phoenix is not completely backwards compatible with wxPython Classic.
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This is intended. In general, however, the API differences tend to be minor
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and some applications can use Phoenix with slight, or even no modifications.
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In some other cases the correct way to do things was also available in Classic
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and it's only the wrong way that has been removed from Phoenix. For more
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information there is a Migration Guide document available at:
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https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/MigrationGuide.html
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The new wxPython API reference documentation, including all Python-specific
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additions and customizations, and docs for the wx.lib package, is located at:
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https://wxpython.org/Phoenix/docs/html/main.html
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