GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[geremy condra]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:57 PM, rantingrick <rantingrick at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 10, 5:17 pm, geremy condra <debat... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Whats the practical
>> difference between telling somebody that either tkinter works out of
>> the box or they'll have to satisfy an extra dependency and just telling
>> them that they'll have to satisfy an additional dependency in the first
>> place?
>
> BIG +1

Please don't agree with me, its almost enough to convince me I'm
wrong.

> It seems that removing Tkinter from the stdlib will not only benefit
> Python, but also Tkinter; due to the fact that Tkinter will not be
> confined to Python's release schedules. As we've witnessed so far
> almost nothing has changed since Tkinter's addition many years ago.
> Heck they only just recently (py30) added a ComboBox widget! This
> development cycle is not working for Tkinter, something must change.
> Tkinter is just a dead weight we're lugging around for no good
> reason.

Did you actually read what I wrote? I said nothing at all about
removing tkinter and in fact oppose doing so.

Geremy Condra