[stdlib-sig] tk package added to PEP 3108

[Brett Cannon]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Fred Drake <fdrake at acm.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

That all sounds reasonable (and the reason I think it is a good idea),
but convincing python-dev in general might be tough. Especially since
that would cause IDLE to not be part of the stdlib.

-Brett