GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Stephen Hansen]

On 6/12/10 12:21 AM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>> Otherwise it makes certain windows-workarounds very problematic. You
>> basically /have/ to write a C extension :|
> 
> That's not problematic at all, for the standard library. Just write that
> C extension.

Come now, of course it is. It may not be problematic for *you*, but it
*is* problematic for a lot of people.

The pool of people competent to write solid, Pythonic, capable Python
code and contribute it-- then add a few lines of ctypes for a
windows-specific workaround-- is surely larger then the pool of people
competent to write a safe C extension.

I know I only *barely* fit into the latter category.

Maybe Cython'll be mature enough eventually that the stdlib could accept
Cython-based "C" extensions for such cases.

-- 

   Stephen Hansen
   ... Also: Ixokai
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