> As I've said often enough on the topic of Web frameworks, picking > winners gives only a temporary victory to those who want to avoid > making decisions. It's better to provide people with a means of making > an informed choice, and it should be realised that people will > approach this choice from rather different angles. It isn't always > going to be, "I want to write a Python application - what GUI should I > use?" Instead, it may be, "I want to write a KDE application - can I > do so in Python and what are my options?" Pretending that the answer > is always the same will frequently drive people to other technologies, > not attract them to a technology selling a vision that turns out to be > a mirage.
This is getting off-topic, I guess, so I'll only comment once because I don't want to get wrapped up in a flame war. This is the argument used by people who think that having both KDE and GNOME is a good thing because it promotes competition, etc. Personally, I believe it's a bad thing because it duplicates effort and delivers an inconsistent look & feel. Developers are forced to choose a framework, not knowing if it will go away in favor of another choice and rendering their own hard work obsolete. I don't want my work dependent upon the framework. I'd rather have less good if it meant longer-term stability and greater consistency. But that's just me. -- Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
