[Python-ideas] win32 extensions

[Brian Curtin]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 20:08, Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
> Guido van Rossum wrote:
>
>> There's also the impression (possibly wrong) that pywin32/win32all is
>> somewhat dated, and hasn't changed much since the glory days of
>> Windows 98.
>
> I think that's mainly because the thing it's wrapping --
> the win32 api -- is somewhat dated, and hasn't changed much
> since the glory days of Windows 98. :-)
>
> By today's standards, the traditional win32 gui api is
> hopelessly cruddy. Unfortunately, the only efforts on
> Microsoft's part to replace it with something better
> seem to be taking place in the .NET world.

Could we skip inclusion the win32gui stuff? We'd be including
something which has been surpassed by WinForms, which itself has
(mostly?) been surpassed by WPF, and soon enough we'll have Metro...on
top of the fact that we'd be introducing a second way to do GUI work
alongside Tkinter.