Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Emile van Sebille]

On 1/19/2011 11:37 AM geremy condra said...
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:22 AM,<patty at cruzio.com>  wrote:
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>>   And aren't some of these libraries developed by 3rd parties?
>
> Any library to replace tkinter would come from a third party, yes.
>
>> And how is that handled by the people in charge?
>
> Again, there aren't really people 'in charge' on this. Whoever wanted
> to push for this would have to do the legwork to make sure that the
> library on offer was good enough to win a lot of support from the
> community, was cross-platform, etc. They'd also have to convince
> someone with commit privs that it was a great idea, convince the rest
> of the dev group not to oppose it.

... and that they'd forevermore support it, which is likely to be as 
much of an obstacle.  I suspect that's why even established libraries 
like PIL, numpy, mxDateTime or win32all never made it into the standard 
library.

Emile