On Jan 17, 12:27 pm, "Octavian Rasnita" <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > And Python should also not include any editor because for > some programmers it is absolutely useless anyway. The > editor can be installed separately very easy and the > programmers can choose the editor they like. The problem > is not that WxPython is not encouraged, but that Tkinter > is encouraged because it is promoted.
These are very true statements Octavian! I had always believed that Python should include a GUI AND and IDE even though Tkinter and IDLE are severely dated. Now i am thinking that maybe we should judt dump both and leave it that way. Why did i previously think this way? Well my concern was to keep the goals of GvR alive. That is that programming should be for everyone and having a simplistic IDE and GUI in the stdlib help foster these goals. However that was circa 1980's and we now find our selfs a decade past the 21st century. We now have a huge amount of 3rd party GUI's and IDE's. Do we even need to include them any more? Sure one could always argue batteries included however with the plethera of 3rd party downloads, the batteries may not be included, but they are located witin reach at the reqister check out Q. Do we need ANY GUI or ANY IDE in the stdlib anymore? I say probably not considering the availability of 3rd party downloads. What say you, Python community? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
