GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[geremy condra]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 18:12 -0700, geremy condra wrote:
>> > * IronPython relies on the .Net environment for everything
>> Since .Net (effectively) depends on Windows,
>
> 100% False;  not "effectively" true at all.  I run [and develop] .NET
> applications on LINUX every day.  IL and the CLR are standards.

Fine, then they can ship it with Linux too, just for you. My point
stands.

>> > I don't see why that first one is so much worse than the others. Sure, it
>> > adds an extra dependency to installing Python for GUI programming, but
>> > that's no different to any other GUI toolkit: PyQt has Qt as a
>> > dependency, PyGtk has Gtk as a dependency, etc. (I trust you're not
>> > suggesting that every language needs to create its own fully-independent
>> > GUI toolkit that talks directly to the hardware!)
>> But we don't have any of those in the standard library.
>
> I just don't see why this is an issue?  Every, or pretty darn close,
> significant Python application depends on 3rd party
> modules/component/libraries.

What does that have to do with the python itself?

Geremy Condra