[Python-Dev] What to choose to replace Tkinter?

[Tim Peters]

[Guido, on finding Tcl/Tk under Windows]
> To me this all sounds like FUD.  Since Python 1.6 and 2.0, you don't
> have to install Tcl/Tk or its libraries -- it is installed
> *transparently* by the Python Windows installer.  That's different --
> and better -- than what happened in 1.5.2, where a separate Tcl/Tk
> installer was optionally run.  The version issues are also resolved
> this way: you are guaranteed to get exactly the Tcl/Tk version that
> was tested by the developers.

Unless you're Fredrik, alas <wink>.  Apparently Tcl still honors library
envars first if they exist, and if some other installation or use of Tcl/Tk
set those, you can still end up w/ a mix. *Much* better than before, though,
and I don't recall ay instance of this happening in real life so far apart
from /F (who had no problem figuring it out, of course).

>> What if a user calls with a problem?  Why should I
>> have to debug their Tcl library path problems?  No
>> thanks.

> The Tcl library paths are all taken care of by the new installer
> strategy.
>
> Really, give it a try.  It Just Works! (SM)

I'll second that!  "Mystery startup errors" from the Python+Tcl+Tk+Windows
combo were at least weekly questions on c.l.py for 1.5.2, often daily.  I've
seen none for 1.6 or 2.0.

and-all-it-took-was-avoiding-ms's-recommended-practices<wink>-ly y'rs  - tim