On Thu, 1 May 2008, Lan Barnes wrote:
It's a sad observation that RH has dropped Tcl/Tk from the standard distributions. Use yum for \*tcl\* and tk\* and you may experience more joy.
?? I fought mightily to keep them in Red Hat back in RHL days on testers-list, but I fear their days are numbered, as new shiny widget sets gain mindshare. Modernity for its own sake is the rule, it seems.
Tk and Tcl are in all variants of RHEL so far, and as 'expect' Requires: libtcl, it is somewhat challenging to completely rip out.
An irrational distaste by the Pythonistas like this hurts, as well:
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 15:56:31 -0500 From: Havoc Pennington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Question about development languages On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 03:47, Anthony Saffer wrote:
I was browsing the Fedora website and noticed that the configuration tools are said to be all Python based with a few PyGTK ones. I don't know Python at all but am very familiar with Perl and PerlTk. Do the tools HAVE to be written in Python or are other languages acceptable?
Tk is unacceptable, it has to be a modern toolkit. Perl is maybe acceptable (others may disagree) but my concern would be more with Perl/GTK bindings, I'm not sure what their status is. The pygtk bindings do require a fair bit of "babysitting" to keep in a good state.
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