On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 04:16 -0700, ant wrote: > Since I started this thread, I feel a sense of responsibility for it, > in some bizarre way. > Not to prolong its existence, which is clearly a troubling one for > some, but to try to steer it towards some kind of consensus that will > irritate the least number of people. Or better, that will gain some > kind of support and momentum so that something happens.
The way to build "support and momentum" is to create a project, commit some code, and demonstrate that it solves the proposed problem. If it does, and the problem is real, then it will get support. > 5 I should stop pontificating, and write code. If it's better than the > existing, people will use it and it will become the standard. +1, for whatever "standard" means. > So I think comments like "the system doesn't work like that - nothing > happens till code is working" miss the point. No. that *is* the point. > We are not talking about some vital but complex module or library here Yes, you are. A GUI toolkit is at least complex, inherently. Doubly so [exponentially so?] if you are talking about a cross-platform toolkit that is in anyway "comprehensive". > So, to summarise the summary: I reiterate my call. Somebody has to get > Tkinter out of the distribution and replaced > by something that - as a minimum - doesn't get slagged off by nearly > everyone. > It can't be me - I don't have the clout You get "clout", whatever that means, by writing code. This isn't the senate, it is Open Source. -- Adam Tauno Williams <awill...@whitemice.org> LPIC-1, Novell CLA <http://www.whitemiceconsulting.com> OpenGroupware, Cyrus IMAPd, Postfix, OpenLDAP, Samba -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
