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

[Corey Richardson]

On 01/18/2011 10:24 PM, rantingrick wrote:
> On Jan 18, 9:02 pm, Corey Richardson <kb1... at aim.com> wrote:
> 
>> If that's what you believe, I don't think many (if any) here have an
>> issue with replacing Tkinter with something that has more features and
>> is just as easy to use.
> 
> Yea, and you're basing that on facts from where? If you haven't
> noticed by now NEWSFLASH! nobody from Python-dev has weighed in. Where
> is Steve Holden on the issue... who knows? Where is his subordinate on
> this?
> 
>> Write up a full-on proposal, including technical
>> feasibility of splitting up wxPython, and send it to python-ideas. After
>> they give some feedback, modify and send to python-dev. If it's well
>> written and makes sense, I'm sure they'll lend an ear.
> 
> Obviously you've never dealt with these folks before have you?
> 
>> Just don't keep
>> getting off topic and I'm sure people will take you more seriously next
>> time. The insulting doesn't help either side.
> 
> Yea, thats all it takes Corey.  Obviously you have not been around
> here long and know that because your spirit is not broken yet. But
> don't worry Corey, because if you hang around long enough these
> monsters will crucify you. Then you will understand why i have to rant
> so much, and why we find ourselves a full decade behind in GUI
> libraries with no good solution in sight. They can find a thousand
> reasons not to remove Tkinter and not one of them have an once of
> vision or thought applied. These people live on emotion, one hand
> washes the other, and back door politics. That is the current state of
> Python-dev as it relates to the "peasents". We are nothing to them.
> 
> Python has lost all vision as a community. This is no doubt the
> beginning of the end. Better check out GO...
> 
> 

Bye.