Oct. 25, 2000
7:14 p.m.
Why not? Because if every app using Tcl/Tk did that there would be hundreds of copies of Tcl/Tk on your disk? I don't think that argument flies; only a few other major languages use Tcl/Tk this was,
So should every application written in Python install it's own copy of Python, since there may be unexpected incompatibilities between versions?
Of course not, but large and important ones may. Some already do, e.g. Alice, Zope, Ultraseek. I have no problem with this. (The saving grace is that none of these needs to recursively include Tcl. :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)