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

[rantingrick]

On Jan 18, 9:54 pm, Adam Skutt <ask... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 18, 9:27 pm, Corey Richardson <kb1... at aim.com> wrote:
> At which point, it's pretty damn
> small.  Not as small as all of the Tk functionality, I think, but well
> under 10MiB compressed.

Yea but look at all your gaining. I would rather sacrifice a few megs
for the rich functionality and scalability any day.


> The problem to me isn't the size (though some might find it
> objectionable), but the system dependencies you have to take:
> wxWidgets requires GTK+ on UNIX

UNIX? are you kidding? Even if these dependancies are needed the
"UNIX" folks are damn capable of finding and installing them with
great ease. Besides most ship with this out the box already! We are
not talking about the lemmings who use windows or even the weekend
linuxers here. If they are using UNIX then there is no need for "hand
holding".

> , which requires a whole mess of crap
> in term, plus swig, plus whatever else I may or may not be missing.

Thats quite an exaggeration Adam.

> I'm also not 100% certain as to whether it's as portable as Tk is
> today.

Wx is just as portable as Tk