Would you use a programming language with missing features?

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Milos Jakubicek <xjakub at fi.muni.cz> wrote:

> On 30.1.2010 14:29, Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
>
>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2009-August/msg00462.html
>>
>> I am not saying the points raised in the above link are not important, but
>> the solution is pretty obvious to me.
>>
>
> Obviously it isn't if you looked at the BZ link in the answer to you in the
> 2009-August thread:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443246
>

At least, there should have been, since the beginning, two tcl available
in Fedora:

tcl and tcl-non-threaded



>
> You can try filing a new bugreport or just get in touch with both the
> maintainer of tcl/tk and eggdrop (quick googling shows there were some
> workarounds which could make it working with threaded tcl/tk as well) and
> try to find out the solution that will make eggdrop working with enabled
> threads.
>

There are at least two official ways of using threaded tcl and eggdrop:

http://eggwiki.org/Threaded_Tcl



>
> (...and yes, I was recently doing a comparison of python GUIs and can just
> recommend switching to PyQt, like I did, or PyGtk -- if you prefer).
>
>
>
I am not talking about developing systems, but learning python. tkinter
is part of python, which makes it very easy to write simple programs, and
run in Windows, for instance (I know there is PyQt for windows, but one has
to go to Riverbank...).

It is not a pleasant situation when your code does not work because
the programming language does not do what it is supposed to.

I am not raising any kind of rant here. I am just pointing that there is a
problem
that could have been already solved.

-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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