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How come wxPython isn't in the standard library?

Roger Binns rogerb at rogerbinns.com
Sat Nov 6 00:13:04 EST 2004 
BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> IMHO,
> having a good GUI library in the stdlib would make distributing GUI
> apps much easier.

Anything that is in stdlib is somewhat constrained to the same release
schedule as the core Python.  For example it would have been bad to do
the wxPython 2.4 to 2.5 transition during the 2.3 Python series.

If your issue is distributing applications, there are other solutions.
For example, look at http://dotamatic.sf.net which is written in
Python using wxPython and has Windows, Linux and Mac binaries.  An
end user never needs to know or care what the application is written
in or libraries used, and there are no other depenedencies.

A more extreme example is http://www.bitpim.org where we have even more
fun stuff like XML, SSL, SSH, USB and many other libraries.  Again the
end users don't ever need to know or care.

Roger
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