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[Python-Dev] Why not revive stdwin?

[Python-Dev] Why not revive stdwin? [Python-Dev] Why not revive stdwin?Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:11:35 -0500
> Greg Ewing <greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz>:
> > It appears that we can't rely on anyone else to provide and
> > support a GUI properly across all three platforms. If we
> > want one, it looks like we'll have to do it ourselves.

Eric Raymond:
> I fear this is much too big a job to be practical -- not just in the
> additional code but the downstream maintainance.

Well said.  The "roll your own" approach has been attempted before,
but simply isn't worth the time and effort.  After all, Python is a
glue language!

(And stdwin would really look pathetic in this time.)

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)



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