Tkinter: The good, the bad, and the ugly!

[Terry Reedy]

On 1/15/2011 11:17 PM, rantingrick wrote:

> Well Geremy the very first step a wise developer employs is to get an
> idea of what the masses want and what they don't want.

'The masses' have so far been divided on what alternative they might 
want. In any case, open source developers are typically scratching their 
own itches, which may are may not be influenced by 'the masses'.

> Nobody wants to waste a second (much less a whole year)
 > developing a wxPython stdlib
> module when the powers that be won't even *entertain* the idea of a
> wxPython stdlib module.

As far as I know, no one has ever seriously proposed any replacement for 
tkinter in at least the last ten years. There has been nothing to 
entertain, review, or discuss, let alone approve or reject. (And if you 
propose to the PSF that developer X contribute his code, the answer will 
be to talk to developer X instead.) 'gui' does not appear in any PEP 
title (except as part of 'guide' or 'guideline'.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy