WxPython versus Tkinter.

[rantingrick]

On Jan 27, 3:54 pm, Grant Edwards <inva... at invalid.invalid> wrote:
> On 2011-01-27, rantingrick <rantingr... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> AS far as I know, Guido has never recommended any particular gui and I
> >> believe he has avoided doing so when asked.
>
> > Yes but his silence speaks louder than words. He is saying " While i
> > won't defend Tkinter publicly, i won't promote any others as well".
> > This is a standard response you'd expect from a politician. These
> > types of questions avoid dealing with the elephant in the room.
>
> I think there are a lot of people who think that including a GUI in
> the standard library was a mistake and the best solution would be to
> get rid of Tkinter and replace it with nothing.  If I were Guido and
> thought that, I'd probably keep mum about it as well. :)

Well i have considered that *maybe* he does feel this way. And by
removing Tkinter not only would we take a huge burden from py-dev but
we would also free Tkinter from the chains of stdlib. Could this help
move Tkinter forward, i think so.


> > The community at large needs to know what Guido van Rossum thinks. You
> > owe us that much Guido.
>
> He doesn't "owe" you or me anything.

Actually yes, he must give us good reason for this "holding on" to
legacy technology. We deserve at least the respect of an explanation.
That IS NOT too much to ask. I am tired of hearing Guido's thoughts
second hand, i want to hear it strait from the horses mouth!