[Python-3000] What do do about IDLE?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 8-mei-2006, at 17:38, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> 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.

I don't think they'll ever learn, because there is a good reason for  
putting tkinter in a separate os package: the dependency on tcl/tk.  
Because of this it is probably save to assume that any GUI package  
will suffer from this split by (linux) distributors.

Ronald
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