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

Samuele Pedroni <[email protected]>:
>
> 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?

I don't know.

> 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 ...

Yup.

> 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 ...

You may be right.

> 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.

Indeed. We've run into that sort of thing before, in some ways.

-- 
Magnus Lie Hetland               "Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist." 
http://hetland.org                                   -- Indiana Jones


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