[Python-Dev] Drop/deprecate Tkinter? (original) (raw)

Brian Curtin brian at python.org
Wed May 2 17:51:00 EDT 2018

On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:37 PM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

On Wed, 2 May 2018 23:28:22 +0200 Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote: > On Wed, 02 May 2018 21:24:07 +0000 > Brian Curtin <brian at python.org> wrote: > > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 16:55 Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev <_ _> > python-dev at python.org> wrote: > > > > > As https://bugs.python.org/issue33257 and > > > https://bugs.python.org/issue33316 showed, Tkinter is broken, for both > > > Py2 and Py3, with both threaded and non-threaded Tcl, since 2002 at > > > least, and no-one gives a damn. > > > > > > This seems to be a testament that very few people are actually > > > interested in or are using it. > > > > > > If that's so, there's no use keeping it in the standard library -- if > > > anything, because there's not enough incentive and/or resources to > > > support it. And to avoid screwing people (=me) up when they have the > > > foolishness to think they can rely on it in their projects -- nowhere in > > > the docs it is said that the module is only partly functional. > > > > > > For the future, this is not how you communicate with the development > > mailing list of any open source software project. I would suggest reading > > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ for some pointers on how people > > typically behave around here in particular. > > Perhaps it would be more constructive to address the OP's point than to > play speech police.

To elaborate a bit: the OP, while angry, produced both a detailed analysis and a PR. It's normal to be angry when an advertised feature doesn't work and it makes you lose hours of work (or, even, forces you to a wholesale redesign). Producing a detailed analysis and a PR is more than most people will ever do.

It may be normal to be angry when something doesn't work the way it should, but analyzing and creating a PR aren't the gateway to normalizing this behavior. Sending thousands of people this type of email isn't how it works.

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