[Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter?
Antoine Pitrou
antoine at python.org
Wed May 2 17:43:40 EDT 2018
I have no opinion about scrapping IDLE and Tkinter, but if we don't, I
think his concerns deserve addressing instead of being dismissed by
wielding the CoC magic wand.
Regards
Antoine.
Le 02/05/2018 à 23:41, Guido van Rossum a écrit :
> So what do *you* think. Do you agree with the OP that Tkinter (and hence
> IDLE) should be scrapped?
>
> On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 2:37 PM, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net
> <mailto:solipsis at pitrou.net>> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2018 23:28:22 +0200
> Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net <mailto:solipsis at pitrou.net>> wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 May 2018 21:24:07 +0000
> > Brian Curtin <brian at python.org <mailto:brian at python.org>> wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 16:55 Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <
> > > python-dev at python.org <mailto:python-dev at python.org>> wrote:
> > >
> > > > As https://bugs.python.org/issue33257
> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33257> and
> > > > https://bugs.python.org/issue33316
> <https://bugs.python.org/issue33316> showed, Tkinter is broken, for both
> > > > Py2 and Py3, with both threaded and non-threaded Tcl, since 2002 at
> > > > least, and no-one gives a damn.
> > > >
> > > > This seems to be a testament that very few people are actually
> > > > interested in or are using it.
> > > >
> > > > If that's so, there's no use keeping it in the standard library -- if
> > > > anything, because there's not enough incentive and/or resources to
> > > > support it. And to avoid screwing people (=me) up when they have the
> > > > foolishness to think they can rely on it in their projects -- nowhere in
> > > > the docs it is said that the module is only partly functional.
> > >
> > >
> > > For the future, this is not how you communicate with the development
> > > mailing list of any open source software project. I would suggest reading
> > > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
> <https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/> for some pointers on how
> people
> > > typically behave around here in particular.
> >
> > Perhaps it would be more constructive to address the OP's point than to
> > play speech police.
>
> To elaborate a bit: the OP, while angry, produced both a detailed
> analysis *and* a PR. It's normal to be angry when an advertised
> feature doesn't work and it makes you lose hours of work (or, even,
> forces you to a wholesale redesign). Producing a detailed analysis and a
> PR is more than most people will ever do.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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