Whatever happened to Fredrik Lundh's Tkinter Construction Kit tkinter3000?

Fredrik Lundh, sadly, passed away in 2021, although, as you have noticed, the project had not received any updates for quite some time before.

So while I do not really know about tkinter3000 or the Tkinter Widget Construction Kit, I would conclude that what happened is the fate of many open-source projects: a project that was maintained by a small number of maintainers (I guess, one, in this case), at some point, did not see any new contributions and thus stalled.

What's the actual question? If you explain what the actual problem is, people may be able to help.

That package is dead and wasn't updated for 20 years. Back then Python wasn't exactly a great idea for GUIs. Python 2 itself is discontinued. Python 3 was first released in 2008, 3 years after the last release of tkinter3000. People who wanted cross-platform GUIs used Java. Nowadays there are better options than tkinter and better ways to define widgets.

If you need to use an application so old it still requires it, you found a download. Although a better option would be to find an application that doesn't depend on a dead package.

If you're looking for a way to create widgets, you should probably check how tkinter works in Python 3. Or use PyQt.

No actual problem, I've just been building some compound widgets in Tkinter over the past few months. Like anyone, I look around for ways I might improve my code or make things easier on myself, and this came up as having existed at one point. Even dead packages can offer insights.

Actually , I'm a little surprised I had not discovered its existence until now.

Fredrik Lundh founded tkinter, PIL and if I recall correctly had shared his knowledge through effbot.org. Tkinter 3000 was supposed to be an update to tkinter for python 3. However, as others have pointed out he sadly passed away and thus the project remains uncompleted.

Yes, thanks. I knew he had died a few years ago. Sad, because I've learned much from his old contributions.

I might make an effort to install Python 2.6 (the Tkinter3000 installer specifies this) so I can go ahead with the installation and see what it was all about.

You can download the zip file and look into the source.