GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Ethan Furman]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-06-08, Martin v. Loewis <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
>>> TkInter -> Tcl -> Tk -> Xlib
>>>
>>> Is the Tcl intepreter really need to use this GUI? Why not:
>>>
>>> (Pyton ->) Tkinter-API -> Xlib ?
>> Even if this was possible (which it is not)
> 
> Why is it not possible?  It seems to have been done for other
> languages.
> 
>> then you still would need the Tcl interpreter: significant parts of
>> Tk are written in Tcl, so Tk won't work without the Tcl interpreter.
>>
>> However, the Tk API doesn't provide all functionality that Tkinter
>> exposes; many features can only be invoked through Tcl.
> 
> True.  Were Tcl removed from the equation, then some feautures would
> have to be re-implemented in Python.
> 

So what functionality is available from Tk alone?  From the very cursory 
glance at the source files (mostly the readmes), it seems pretty 
entwined with Tcl.

~Ethan~