On Feb 12, 9:40 pm, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > azrael wrote: > > I think that there should be a list on python.org of supported or > > sugested modules for some need. For example Database access. Or GUI > > Building. It is a complete pain in the ass. Let's face the true, TK is > > out of date. There should be another one used and appended to the > > standard Python Library. One that plays well with other platforms. And > > if it does't, let's make it play better. > > The Python core will not ship with another GUI toolkit. TK may be > removed from the core in some distant future but we - the Python core > development team - will *not* make a choice between GTK, WX and Qt. > > > One other thing. I am not looking for war on groups. I just would like > > to discuss some things that drive me crazy while using Python. > > In your opinion all third party are bad. You like to have one monolithic > block of software. That's a typical Microsoft approach. Lot's of people > from the open source community prefer small and loosely coupled pieces > of software. One of the greatest ruler of all time once said "divide et > impera" -- divide it in small pieces to make it much easier to conquer > every piece by its own. We are following the same path here. > > Nobody is going to stop you from creating a large bundle of useful > extensions as long as you follow the licenses. In fact lots of people > may appreciate a bundle. But the Python core package will always stay > small and agile. > > Christian
I understand that. completely. I don't think that third party is bad. It is great that someone has an Idea and decides to make a new project. But why not adopting best practices or maybe even make a small effort to construct better support for some popular and commonly used modules. If these modules always stay third party, there will come a day when they stop being developed. At this point , Python looses a good module from beeing developed any further. And some time later, someone else starts again from scratch and make something new. I came to Python because it has some features that always annoyed me in C++ or Java. The diference between Java and Python that Java is today way much often used thaen python, has a much larger Library collection. I am mainly afraid that Python will become just a small Scripting languages. There are a lot of people that say that they would start Python, but they dont't want to because they don't want to get their results in Comand line. I don't say that Comandline is bad, but I think about the common user. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
