[Python-Dev] FYI: ajuba solutions (formerly scriptics) acquired by interwoven

Andrew Kuchling akuchlin@mems-exchange.org
Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:15:14 -0400


On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 07:07:12PM +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>I'm waiting for the Tcl/Tk developers to grow up -- they still
>fear that any attempt to make it easier to use Tk from other
>languages would be to "give up the crown jewels" :-(

In the long run this has probably harmed Tk seriously.  If Tk was just
a widget set divorced from Tcl, then it might have been chosen as the
underlying widget set for GNOME or KDE, and then have benefited from
the development work done for those projects, such as the GNOME canvas
enhancements, which now can't be absorbed back into Tk without a lot
of effort to merge the two sets of code.  

--amk