[Python-3000] What do do about IDLE?

[Fred L. Drake, Jr.]

On Monday 08 May 2006 05:39, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
 > Yes there is. Some distributors are lame enough to think they know better
 > and ship parts of the standard library seperately, but that's not a valid
 > reason for removing parts of the stdlib.

Hopefully they'll learn.  This is been a regular problem for the distutils 
package, which is pure Python.

As someone who's preferred building Python from source for years, I've never 
considered Tkinter something that's guaranteed to be there.  It's always 
depended on external packages, and has been built when the necessary 
dependencies are present (or, in the Modules/Setup days, when it's been 
explicitly configured).  It's part of the standard library, but has never be 
promised to always be available on Unix.


  -Fred

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Fred L. Drake, Jr.   <fdrake at acm.org>