On 01/27/2011 04:10 PM, rantingrick wrote: > On Jan 27, 2:00 pm, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: >> On 1/27/2011 12:54 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: >> >>> Everything that's not accessible is not recommended. >> >> By you. We get that. >> >> >Tkinter should be at most accepted because there is no better solution, >> >> As I said at the beginning of this thread, tkinter is currently the only >> option. What would have happened if there had been a real competitor >> when 3.0 was being developed? What would happen in the future if one >> were developed? I do not think anyone really knows. >> >>> at least for Python 3, not because it is the recommended solution. >> >> AS far as I know, Guido has never recommended any particular gui and I >> believe he has avoided doing so when asked. > > Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i > won't defend Tkinter publicly, i won't promote any others as well". > This is a standard response you'd expect from a politician. These > types of questions avoid dealing with the elephant in the room. > > We can't just assume that Tkinter is best for Python just because > "Guido" does not want to "ruffle" some features. Actually if you look > back over the very few post where Guido did offer an argument for > Tkinter you'll the find the argument to be very weak. And to make > matters worse no one has the balls to question or argue Guido. Now > whilst i greatly respect Guido i will not hesitate for one second to > call him on weak arguments. > > Case in point: Just recently i posted one of Guido's such arguments in > another thread and responded to the argument. The original thread was > from roughly eight years ago. Yes this is how long it has been since > Guido offered argument for Tkinter. Does he honestly think that the > world has not changed significantly in eight years as to render > Tkinter into legacy? Does he also want us to believe that the world > has not changed dramatically in the last twenty years since Tkinter > was introduced? I have yet to get a response for his weak argument > eight years ago and i can expect we will hear nothing now. >
wxPython is the best and most mature cross-platform GUI toolkit, given a number of constraints. The only reason wxPython isn't the standard Python GUI toolkit is that Tkinter was there first. -- Guido van Rossum (from http://www.wxpython.org/quotes.php) A weak argument - yes. But the thought is there, and it's the thought that counts, right? ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
