GUI toolkit(s) status

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Le vendredi 21 novembre 2014 15:13:54 UTC+1, Kevin Walzer a écrit :
> On 11/20/14, 11:34 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> > A possible solution for Tk is to replace the non-C Tcl parts of TK with
> > Python (or the CPython API functions as needed for speed).  I have no
> > idea how horrendous a project creating Py/Tk would be.
> 
> It would be very horrendous. See Perl/Tk as the example. They ripped out 
> the Tcl interpreter and interfaced directly with Tk's C API. The result 
> was a rigid, inflexible binding that was never ported to the Mac 
> (because it required a C implementation) and could never be easily 
> updated to take advantage of new features in Tk, because again it 
> required a C implementation. Perl-Tk still exists, but more modern 
> bindings like ActiveState's Tkx module have restored the Tcl 
> interpreter, giving you access to all Tk advances and platforms "for free."
> 
> Apart from the ease of updating Tk features, from a design standpoint I 
> think this is the right call. There may be a little extra overhead in 
> having an extra interpreter embedded, but that is what Tcl was 
> originally designed for: embedding. It handles this requirement more 
> easily and with less pain than most languages. I think that's why Tk 
> became the default GUI binding of choice for other scripting languages.
> 
> --Kevin
> 
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> Kevin Walzer
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TeXLive (since 2014, if I'm not wrong) has a GUI installer
and package manager, I recognized a "tcl/tk/tkinter-like" - Perl
tool and contrary to Python it works.

jmf