gui toolkits: the real story? (Tkinter, PyGTK, etc.)

[bramble]

On Oct 2, 7:33 am, Carsten Haese <cars... at uniqsys.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 03:04 +0000, bramble wrote:
> > But Py3k is all about breaking compatibility
>
> That's a complete distortion of Python 3.0's mission. Python 3.0 breaks
> backwards compatibility only where there exist good reasons to do so. As
> Guido put it in a recent Python-3000 post, "Python 3000 is boldly
> choosing to be backwards compatible, except in cases where a real
> benefit can be obtained by being incompatible."
>
> So, unless you can make a case that a real benefit can be obtained by
> removing Tkinter, it'll stay.

Well, it of course wouldn't break backward compatibility by simply
removing it from the standard library and providing it as an optional
extra set of modules.