So what do *you* think. Do you agree with the OP that Tkinter (and hence IDLE) should be scrapped?

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2018 23:28:22 +0200
Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 02 May 2018 21:24:07 +0000
> Brian Curtin <brian@python.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 16:55 Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <
> > python-dev@python.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > As https://bugs.python.org/issue33257 and
> > > https://bugs.python.org/issue33316 showed, Tkinter is broken, for both
> > > Py2 and Py3, with both threaded and non-threaded Tcl, since 2002 at
> > > least, and no-one gives a damn.
> > >
> > > This seems to be a testament that very few people are actually
> > > interested in or are using it.
> > >
> > > If that's so, there's no use keeping it in the standard library -- if
> > > anything, because there's not enough incentive and/or resources to
> > > support it. And to avoid screwing people (=me) up when they have the
> > > foolishness to think they can rely on it in their projects -- nowhere in
> > > the docs it is said that the module is only partly functional.   
> >
> >
> > For the future, this is not how you communicate with the development
> > mailing list of any open source software project. I would suggest reading
> > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ for some pointers on how people
> > typically behave around here in particular. 
>
> Perhaps it would be more constructive to address the OP's point than to
> play speech police.

To elaborate a bit: the OP, while angry, produced both a detailed
analysis *and* a PR.  It's normal to be angry when an advertised
feature doesn't work and it makes you lose hours of work (or, even,
forces you to a wholesale redesign). Producing a detailed analysis and a
PR is more than most people will ever do.

Regards

Antoine.


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