On Apr 21, 11:36 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > It's only easy to install a package on Ubuntu if you know that you have > > to, and can somehow work out the name of the package. > > No one actually has to install tkinter. That's the whole point of providing > it as a separate package: only those who want to use it have to install it. > The rest of us don't.
I'm a programmer, I installed Tkinter, and use it. I'd like to deploy programs written with it to others. **Those** people know nothing about it, and **shouldn't have to**. I've given them a program in Python, they have Python, but it doesn't run, and doesn't give them a helpful error. They'll probably just blame me and move on. Not every Python user is a programmer. If I write a program in Java, any user with Java installed can run it. As it stands, that's no true for Python. That's not good PR for the cause. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
