On Jan 26, 11:18 am, "Octavian Rasnita" <orasn...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: "rantingrick" <rantingr...@gmail.com> > On Jan 25, 3:41 pm, Corey Richardson <kb1...@aim.com> wrote: > > > Do you honestly think he was talking about the accessibility problem? > > IMO that should move to another thread, because this one is simply > > about, as the subject suggests, "WxPython versus Tkinter". > > Corey again (like many) you lack a global perspective. Anybody who has > read along with his thread knows we are covering some pretty big > issues here. WxPython is just the vehicle. The big picture is simply: > Tkinter is old and in many ways insufficient for 21st century GUIs. We > need to decide what should come next. I believe wxPython is our best > hope. Wx may not be the best it can be, but it is the best we have at > this time. There is more than "meets the eye" Corey! > -- > > I will tell you what I think and many of you won't like this. :-) > I think that nothing is "sufficient" and nothing should last forever. > > The people don't need Tkinter. They don't need WxPython. They don't need > Python. Do you think that Python is a language that will be used forever? > The people don't necessarily need to use a computer. Do you think that the > computers as they are today will be used until the end of the time? > > The people do need to have an easier life, to make as little efforts as > possible and to obtain as much benefit as possible and for the moment the > computers and Python and a GUI lib help them do this, so these things are > just some other means for obtaining what they need. > > What we don't agree is that some of the list members think that only the > selfishness is the right ATITUDE AND SAY THAT I should change mine because I > should care more about my own benefits and don't care at all about the > others. > > Octavian
Hi Octavian, Normally I would expect talks of selfishness etc to be too OT for a python list. However since nobody is saying that (yet) let me point you to a passage from the upanishads: http://www.hindu-blog.com/2007/10/brihadaranyaka-upanishads-quotes-sage.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
