bpo-44903: Removed othergui.rst and list of GUI frameworks (GH-27762)

(cherry picked from commit 6a358bb)

Co-authored-by: Gautam Chaudhuri <gautam.chaudhuri.1803@gmail.com>

Doc/faq/gui.rst

@@ -14,17 +14,8 @@ Graphic User Interface FAQ
 General GUI Questions
 =====================
 
-What platform-independent GUI toolkits exist for Python?
-========================================================
-
-Depending on what platform(s) you are aiming at, there are several.  Some
-of them haven't been ported to Python 3 yet.  At least `Tkinter`_ and `Qt`_
-are known to be Python 3-compatible.
-
-.. XXX check links
-
-Tkinter
--------
+What GUI toolkits exist for Python?
+===================================
 
 Standard builds of Python include an object-oriented interface to the Tcl/Tk
 widget set, called :ref:`tkinter <Tkinter>`.  This is probably the easiest to
@@ -34,83 +25,12 @@ For more info about Tk, including pointers to the source, see the
 `Tcl/Tk home page <https://www.tcl.tk>`_.  Tcl/Tk is fully portable to the
 Mac OS X, Windows, and Unix platforms.
 
-wxWidgets
----------
-
-wxWidgets (https://www.wxwidgets.org) is a free, portable GUI class
-library written in C++ that provides a native look and feel on a
-number of platforms, with Windows, Mac OS X, GTK, X11, all listed as
-current stable targets.  Language bindings are available for a number
-of languages including Python, Perl, Ruby, etc.
-
-`wxPython <https://www.wxpython.org>`_ is the Python binding for
-wxwidgets.  While it often lags slightly behind the official wxWidgets
-releases, it also offers a number of features via pure Python
-extensions that are not available in other language bindings.  There
-is an active wxPython user and developer community.
-
-Both wxWidgets and wxPython are free, open source, software with
-permissive licences that allow their use in commercial products as
-well as in freeware or shareware.
-
-
-Qt
----
-
-There are bindings available for the Qt toolkit (using either `PyQt
-<https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro>`_ or `PySide
-<https://wiki.qt.io/PySide>`_) and for KDE (`PyKDE4 <https://techbase.kde.org/Languages/Python/Using_PyKDE_4>`__).
-PyQt is currently more mature than PySide, but you must buy a PyQt license from
-`Riverbank Computing <https://www.riverbankcomputing.com/commercial/license-faq>`_
-if you want to write proprietary applications.  PySide is free for all applications.
-
-Qt 4.5 upwards is licensed under the LGPL license; also, commercial licenses
-are available from `The Qt Company <https://www.qt.io/licensing/>`_.
-
-Gtk+
-----
-
-The `GObject introspection bindings <https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject>`_
-for Python allow you to write GTK+ 3 applications.  There is also a
-`Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial <https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io>`_.
-
-The older PyGtk bindings for the `Gtk+ 2 toolkit <https://www.gtk.org>`_ have
-been implemented by James Henstridge; see <http://www.pygtk.org>.
-
-Kivy
-----
-
-`Kivy <https://kivy.org/>`_ is a cross-platform GUI library supporting both
-desktop operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux) and mobile devices (Android,
-iOS).  It is written in Python and Cython, and can use a range of windowing
-backends.
-
-Kivy is free and open source software distributed under the MIT license.
-
-FLTK
-----
-
-Python bindings for `the FLTK toolkit <http://www.fltk.org>`_, a simple yet
-powerful and mature cross-platform windowing system, are available from `the
-PyFLTK project <https://pyfltk.sourceforge.io/>`_.
-
-OpenGL
-------
-
-For OpenGL bindings, see `PyOpenGL <http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net>`_.
-
-
-What platform-specific GUI toolkits exist for Python?
-========================================================
-
-By installing the `PyObjc Objective-C bridge
-<https://pypi.org/project/pyobjc/>`_, Python programs can use Mac OS X's
-Cocoa libraries.
-
-:ref:`Pythonwin <windows-faq>` by Mark Hammond includes an interface to the
-Microsoft Foundation Classes and a Python programming environment
-that's written mostly in Python using the MFC classes.
-
+Depending on what platform(s) you are aiming at, there are also several
+alternatives. A `list of cross-platform
+<https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming#Cross-Platform_Frameworks>`_ and
+`platform-specific
+<https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming#Platform-specific_Frameworks>`_ GUI
+frameworks can be found on the python wiki.
 
 Tkinter questions
 =================

Doc/library/tk.rst

@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ bundled with Python. Although its standard documentation is weak, good
 material is available, which includes: references, tutorials, a book and
 others. :mod:`tkinter` is also famous for having an outdated look and feel,
 which has been vastly improved in Tk 8.5. Nevertheless, there are many other
-GUI libraries that you could be interested in. For more information about
-alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
+GUI libraries that you could be interested in. The Python wiki lists several
+alternative `GUI frameworks and tools <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`_.
 
 .. toctree::
 
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ alternatives, see the :ref:`other-gui-packages` section.
    tkinter.ttk.rst
    tkinter.tix.rst
    idle.rst
-   othergui.rst
 
 .. Other sections I have in mind are
    Tkinter internals

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2021-08-13-19-08-03.bpo-44903.aJuvQF.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Removed the othergui.rst file, any references to it, and the list of GUI
+frameworks in the FAQ. In their place I've added links to the Python Wiki
+`page on GUI frameworks <https://wiki.python.org/moin/GuiProgramming>`.