On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:57 PM, rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Jun 10, 5:17 pm, geremy condra <debat...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Whats the practical >> difference between telling somebody that either tkinter works out of >> the box or they'll have to satisfy an extra dependency and just telling >> them that they'll have to satisfy an additional dependency in the first >> place? > > BIG +1
Please don't agree with me, its almost enough to convince me I'm wrong. > It seems that removing Tkinter from the stdlib will not only benefit > Python, but also Tkinter; due to the fact that Tkinter will not be > confined to Python's release schedules. As we've witnessed so far > almost nothing has changed since Tkinter's addition many years ago. > Heck they only just recently (py30) added a ComboBox widget! This > development cycle is not working for Tkinter, something must change. > Tkinter is just a dead weight we're lugging around for no good > reason. Did you actually read what I wrote? I said nothing at all about removing tkinter and in fact oppose doing so. Geremy Condra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
