[soc2008-general] Mentor(s) interested in Tkinter

[Guilherme Polo]

2008/3/27, Alan G Isaac <aisaac at american.edu>:
> On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Guilherme Polo apparently wrote:
>  > I've submitted my proposal but so far all the mentors
>  > I talked to (3 or 4) at #gsoc-python are not much into Tk.
>  > I would like to know if there is any mentor under PSF that
>  > have interest in Tk/Tkinter, and if possible do some kind
>  > of review towards my submission ("Bringing Ttk to
>  > Tkinter") so I can possibly update it to better.
>
>
>
> I cannot mentor this project, but I want to share my
>  enthusiasm for it.
>
>  I noticed a rumor that Tkinter might be left out of the
>  Python 3.0 release.  In my opinion, that would be horribly
>  against the "batteries included" philosophy of Python that
>  makes it so useful for teaching and research.  Your work
>  would make the case for retention even more powerful.
>

I've read that thread at python-list but as far as I can tell it is
not the reality. Tkinter is not being removed at Python 3, there is
not reason to. It will even get to be a package instead of a lib-tk
directory ;)

>  Cheers,
>  Alan Isaac
>
>

Thanks,

-- 
-- Guilherme H. Polo Goncalves