[stdlib-sig] tk package added to PEP 3108

[Paul Moore]

On 24/02/2008, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
>  >  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.

I've no real opinion myself, but I believe one of the sticking points
is that without tk, there's no way in core Python of putting up a
simple GUI. The pydoc server installed with Windows Python ("Module
Docs" on the start menu) and the Twisted installer use this, I
believe.

Paul.