From: "Robert Kern" <robert.k...@gmail.com>
in? Robin Dunn is the wxPython project lead.
Ok, in this case I understand why WxPython can't be included in stdlib.
I think there was a communication problem because the oldest list members
start with the idea that all the list members know who is who and they may
be thinking that I don't want to accept the reality or that I have bad
feelings about some list members or something like that.
There is a large difference between the being "promoted by Python" and
being "included in Python's standard library. The latter is the issue at
hand, not the former. wxPython is already "promoted" by Python's
documentation:
If there is a bigger chance that a beginner start using Tkinter without
knowing its issues, this means that Python promotes the wrong tool.
As I said, the main issue is not that Python doesn't promote WxPython. I
have even suggested that Python might not include any GUI if this would be
prefered, but what's wrong is that Python promotes a GUI which is not
accessible by including it as a default GUI.
As we all know, Python doesn't care too much about maintaining a backward
compatibility and there are much many other things which are not compatible
between different Python versions, but some Python programmers consider this
a virtue because they say that what was wrong was eliminated. If they are
right, then why wouldn't be a good idea to also remove a wrong GUI lib? Just
because the majority prefers it?
Octavian
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