On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 6:04 AM, Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> wrote: > On 5/6/2018 10:03 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> If it were up to me, I would deprecate non-threaded mode immediately, > > > Given that 99% of tkinter users do not need threaded tcl, why cut some of > them off?
"Non-threaded" really just means "non-thread-safe". There's nothing wrong with using thread-safe APIs when you're using only a single thread, other than the performance overhead. Is that significant enough to require the distinction? > When tkinter is import and a root is created, tkinter cannot know > whether the user is going to later make failing calls from threads. Tkinter > has traditional been slow to remove support of old versions; it still > supports 8.4. It will eventually become a moot point, at least on Windows, > as current Windows installers install threaded tcl. I presume the same is > true for the new Mac installers. I have no idea what people have on linux. That's what I'm hoping for, yes. Eventually threaded will be the only way to do things. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
