[stdlib-sig] tk package added to PEP 3108

[Fred Drake]

On Feb 24, 2008, at 1:12 AM, Brett Cannon wrote:
> I added the proposed tk package. I did merging of the modules with
> similar names but with or without a 'tk' prefix. Might be able to toss
> some out, but since I never use Tkinter I am not going to bother.


The specific re-naming proposals sound reasonable to me, though it's  
been a long time since I've used Tkinter.

The open issue you added to the PEP, regarding removing Tkinter (by  
whatever name) from the core, allowing it to be independently  
maintained, makes a lot of sense.  Tk isn't used so much on Unix/Linux  
as it once was, and has never received a great welcome on Windows.   
The rationale for removing it, allowing it to more closely follow Tk,  
makes a lot of sense to me as well.

And that would make the standard library smaller, and easier to  
maintain.  Always a good thing.


   -Fred

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Fred Drake   <fdrake at acm.org>