GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Mark Roseman]

 "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> For the record, Python *does* include newer versions of Tk all the time.


Martin, just to reinforce the point... developers using Tkinter need to 
make some fairly minor changes to their application code to truly take 
advantage of the improvements in recent versions of Tk.  Without those 
app changes, they're not going to see any difference.

To quote from the first section of the tutorial at http://www.tkdocs.com

> This tutorial is designed to help people get up to speed quickly with 
> building mainstream desktop graphical user interfaces with Tk, and in 
> particular Tk 8.5, which is an incredibly significant milestone release.
> 
> The downside is that unless you know one or two particular things, it's 
> actually not that significant a release; For backwards compatibility reasons, 
> unless existing programs make a few simple changes, they won't look all that 
> much different. So while this tutorial will certainly benefit newcomers to 
> Tk, it will also help existing Tk developers bring their knowledge right up 
> to date. 

Mark