Re: [Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

2011-07-07 Thread Cameron Laird
On Thu, Jul 07, 2011 at 07:40:59AM -0500, Kevin Buchs wrote: . . . > It sounds like you have a good plan. If I wanted to future-proof a project > like that, I would probably implement it as an HTML5/CSS/javascript > generator a

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

2011-07-07 Thread Kevin Buchs
Alessandro, It sounds like you have a good plan. If I wanted to future-proof a project like that, I would probably implement it as an HTML5/CSS/javascript generator and use a browser to navigate it. That would put the future-proof requirement above any desire to learn GUI programming. Almost any G

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

2011-07-07 Thread alexxxm
Hi Kevin, thank you for your reply. I would not call it a production tool, maybe, since it will be used just by me: I will upload it as free software of course, but I already know that it's not something people are much interested into: a wiki-based organization of the whole filesystem - if you're

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

2011-07-06 Thread Wayne Werner
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:10 AM, alexxxm wrote: > > Hi people, > I'm midway in writing a simple wiki, in python+tkinter (thanks also to your > help, http://old.nabble.com/newbie-request-for-help-td31791699.html). > Simple for the typical developer maybe, but for me is long work, and once > you sta

Re: [Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

2011-07-06 Thread Kevin Buchs
Alesandro, Tk has been around for probably more than 20 years. It is established in many applications. I would think that tkinter is well established. However, you have to consider that computer science is an ever-changing field. Some things that were well established 20 years ago are gone now. An

[Tkinter-discuss] tkinter - hopefully forecasting a very long life...

2011-07-06 Thread alexxxm
Hi people, I'm midway in writing a simple wiki, in python+tkinter (thanks also to your help, http://old.nabble.com/newbie-request-for-help-td31791699.html). Simple for the typical developer maybe, but for me is long work, and once you start optimizing stuff, it can become a very large project. And