[Python-3000] PyGUI in Py3K stdlib, more details

[Paul Moore]

On 5/2/06, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> A widget toolkit which pre-implements parts of particular applications
> does make it easier to implement those applications, I agree.  The
> question in my mind is whether an application can be built even if
> that particular widget is missing.  Core vs. useful, I suppose.

My view is entirely opposite. If the control (widget) is provided
natively, it needs to be made available to application code. Otherwise
it's necessary to reimplement it, and you're never going to get every
detail right. This way lies Tk's or Swing's "cross-platform" GUI mess.

This is, of course, hard, as platforms offer widely differing widget
sets. Tough. Nobody said writing a portable GUI layer was going to be
easy.

Paul.