Re: Idea for backend maintainers: "reversal of roles"

From: "Magnus Lie Hetland" <[email protected]>

>
> Samuele: Would the Jython bunch be interested in distributing (not
> necessarily maintaining) javagui.py? In that case we would, at least,
> have the two main Python implementations covered... :]
>

In which CVS would javagui.py live? and the other backends?

In general IMO it is never a good idea to distribute a piece of user visible
functionality that a project does not mantain, because one will get complains
and questions that then should be redirected ...

We have already this problem with parts of PyXML in Jython, there the added
value make it meaningful and CPython also does this redistribution, still it is
painful.

I think Anygui can choose to try to have just working backends for a small
subsets of toolkits (tk + swing + wx ...?), but shipping none or just one is
problematic ...

there is also the issue that developing just one backend makes impossible to
know whether the design choices extend nicely to the other potential target
toolkits or not.



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