lcrocker wrote: > I understand that for something like a server distribution, but Ubuntu > is a user-focused desktop distribution. It has a GUI, always.
Irrelevant. > The > purpose of a distro like that is to give users a good experience. If I > install Python on Windows, I get to use Python. On Ubuntu, I don't, > and I think that will confuse some users. Nonsense. No one is keeping anyone off tkinter. If you want it, install it. There are official packages in the repositories such as python-tk and python3-tk. If someone else doesn't want them then they aren't forced to pack their Ubuntu systems with more cruft. There's nothing worse than being forced to install piles of irrelevant and useless stuff as a dependency to a fundamental package. > I recently recommended > Python to a friend who wants to start learning programming. Hurdles > like this don't help someone like him. If your friend believes that having to do an extra pair of clicks or typing sudo apt-get install python-tk is an unbeatable hurdle then your friend's computer skills are awfully lacking and he won't have much success learning how to write programs. Rui Maciel -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
