GUIs - A Modest Proposal

[Martin v. Loewis]

Am 12.06.2010 17:33, schrieb Stephen Hansen:
> On 6/12/10 12:21 AM, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
>>> Otherwise it makes certain windows-workarounds very problematic. You
>>> basically /have/ to write a C extension :|
>>
>> That's not problematic at all, for the standard library. Just write that
>> C extension.
>
> Come now, of course it is. It may not be problematic for *you*, but it
> *is* problematic for a lot of people.

Sure, but a lot of people don't contribute to the standard library. They
can happily continue to use ctypes.

Please trust me that, *for the standard library*, the requirement to 
write explicit wrappers never was a problem.

> Maybe Cython'll be mature enough eventually that the stdlib could accept
> Cython-based "C" extensions for such cases.

For Cython, the issue is rather the bootstrapping issue (would we need 
to incorporate it if we have Cython code in CPython?). Perhaps the 
answer is "no", assuming that the generated C file also gets checked 
into Python (after all, autoconf is also not distributed along with Python).

Regards,
Martin