I realise I'm quite new to this list but I've been working with PyGTK for a while now and would welcome peoples feedback on something. please put me straight if I'm treading on toes, or reiterating an old discussion.
There have been several discussions on the list in the last few months about trying to get PyGTK into the standard library, and whilst attending europython recently I had an opportunity to steer conversations in that direction with a lot of people to get a feel for the (european at least) communities take on this, most of the people I spoke to where non PyGTK folks, and the opinions seemed to be generally favourable. there where however a few buts... 1. Documentation - this is something that has been discussed on the list quite a few times and actually I think the exsisting free docs are perfectly adequate it seemed to mostly come from people who had tried PyGTK "back in the day" (when I seem to remember there wasn't a lot of documentation) 2. Windows - many people seemed surprised that GTK ran on windows at all and others had been put of by all the various different ways of doing it, I have been reading the [Installation Problems on Win32] thread that seems to be raging on so I'll just add my two pence worth from what I've gathered so far the python community at large and the maintainers of the standard libraries would want a simple "drop it in" installer for the basic gtk runtime (a la dropline). 3.Idle - Actually most people seemed to be oblivious to Idle but I can see it would have to be ported to GTK (almost re-written) and this is where I come in, I've already been doing some stuff with a simple text editor written in python and PyGTK and I have some time available so if no one else wants the job I'll take it on, help would be appreciated or if someone else wants the job (or has already started it), my help is offered. So is this something the PyGTK community wants to see happen? I for one would love to see PyGTK in the standard distro, (Tk is sooooo long in the tooth its untrue) and am willing to put in some work to see it happen, so if its already happening put me to work!, if not could we make it happen?? thanks for taking the time to read this Matt _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/
