PyGUI as a standard GUI API for Python?

[Greg Ewing]

Michael Palmer wrote:

> So far, development of PyGUI seems to be a one-man effort, and it may
> be slowed down by the attempt to develop the API and the
> implementations concurrently. Could it be useful to uncouple the two,
> such that the API would be specified ahead of the implementation?

I'm not sure that would work very well. I don't think
it's possible to invent a good API for something as
complex as a GUI toolkit in the absence of experience
using it, so the API has to evolve in parallel with at
least one implementation, and with real applications
that actually use the features concerned.

Also, the features that go into the PyGUI API are partly
determined by what is available in the underlying target
libraries. I don't want to end up with things in the
API specification that are too difficult or unwieldy
to implement on some of the target platforms. I also
don't want one implementation to get too far ahead of
the others, for the same reason.

If anyone wants to help, what's needed most right now
is a good native Windows implementation. One or two
people claimed to be working on that some time ago,
but I haven't heard from them recently. For the reasons
I mentioned above, I'm reluctant to forge ahead with
too many new features until a native Windows version
exists.

-- 
Greg