[Python-Dev] Patch or feature? Tix.Grid working for 2.5 (original) (raw)

Christos Georgiou tzot at mediconsa.com
Sun Mar 19 17:25:58 CET 2006

"Neal Norwitz" <nnorwitz at gmail.com> wrote in message news:ee2a432c0603181427x31d31c6foe39ab01d3a6cf2d9 at mail.gmail.com... On 3/18/06, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:

Christos Georgiou wrote:

> I would like to know if supplying a patch for it sometime in the next > couple > of weeks would be considered a patch (since the widget currently is not > working at all, its class in Tix.py contains just a pass statement) or a > feature (ie extra functionality) for the 2.5 branch...

[Martin]

I wouldn't object to including it before beta 1.

Good to have a general deadline (ObRef Douglas Adams: ""I like deadlines; I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.")

[Neal]

Nor would I. I'm not sure if this helps or not, but a general rule of thumb is if it's 100 lines it's probably a patch. If it's 1000 lines, it's probably a major feature. Given such a patch is pure python and probably much closer to 100 lines, this should be ok.

It should amount to 100-200 lines as far as I can see, I'm just playing with .tk.call and writing down how to do stuff, and trying to grok the general style of classes interfacing to Tkinter/Tix. DisplayStyle is already there, which is good. Thankfully the tix docs seem to be complete, so it should be only a matter of time. I will try to update tixwidgets.py with a demo page too.

[Neal]

BTW, have you contacted the Tix people? It is a separate project and looks like people are working on it. http://tix.sourceforge.net/

That's where I got the documentation. I haven't contacted them, though, because I saw that Tix.py hasn't been modified for 4 years now. I will offer the patch both to the Python and the Tix Tix.py though, thanks for the suggestion.

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