On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 5:37 PM Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2018 23:28:22 +0200 > Antoine Pitrou <solip...@pitrou.net> wrote: > > On Wed, 02 May 2018 21:24:07 +0000 > > Brian Curtin <br...@python.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, May 2, 2018 at 16:55 Ivan Pozdeev via Python-Dev < > > > python-dev@python.org> wrote: > > > > > > > As https://bugs.python.org/issue33257 and > > > > https://bugs.python.org/issue33316 showed, Tkinter is broken, for > both > > > > Py2 and Py3, with both threaded and non-threaded Tcl, since 2002 at > > > > least, and no-one gives a damn. > > > > > > > > This seems to be a testament that very few people are actually > > > > interested in or are using it. > > > > > > > > If that's so, there's no use keeping it in the standard library -- if > > > > anything, because there's not enough incentive and/or resources to > > > > support it. And to avoid screwing people (=me) up when they have the > > > > foolishness to think they can rely on it in their projects -- > nowhere in > > > > the docs it is said that the module is only partly functional. > > > > > > > > > For the future, this is not how you communicate with the development > > > mailing list of any open source software project. I would suggest > reading > > > https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ for some pointers on how > people > > > typically behave around here in particular. > > > > Perhaps it would be more constructive to address the OP's point than to > > play speech police. > > To elaborate a bit: the OP, while angry, produced both a detailed > analysis *and* a PR. It's normal to be angry when an advertised > feature doesn't work and it makes you lose hours of work (or, even, > forces you to a wholesale redesign). Producing a detailed analysis and a > PR is more than most people will ever do. > It may be normal to be angry when something doesn't work the way it should, but analyzing and creating a PR aren't the gateway to normalizing this behavior. Sending thousands of people this type of email isn't how it works. To address their point: no, next topic.
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