[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: Update: as of 3.6.8rc1 and the eventual 2.7.16rc1, both installer variants (10.9+ and 10.6+) provide a built-in Tcl/Tk 8.6.8. For python.org installers, Tcl/Tk 8.5.x is finally dead! -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: New changeset d0d09b511d7a438fb18a9a4703480763119b4eac by Ned Deily in branch '2.7': [2.7] bpo-15663: the 10.6+ macOS installers for 3.6/2.7 now provide a private Tcl/Tk 8.6 (GH-0)

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: New changeset f74cabd9203cf3be97fdb3821a7fa0b74d7b2263 by Ned Deily in branch '3.6': [3.6] bpo-15663: the 10.6+ macOS installers for 3.6/2.7 now provide a private Tcl/Tk 8.6 (GH-11109)

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

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[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

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[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: Update: as of 3.7.0b3, both 3.7.0 installer variants (10.9+ and 10.6+) provide a built-in Tcl/Tk 8.6.8. And 3.6.5 and 2.7.15 also provide a 10.9+ installer variant with the built-in Tcl/Tk 8.6.8. (For the moment, the 3.6.5 and 2.7.15 10.6+

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: As of 3.7.0b1, the new macOS 10.9+ installer variant includes a private copy of Tcl/Tk 8.6: 8.6.7 for 3.7.0b1, updated to 8.6.8 for 3.7.0b2. The framework layout is pretty much the same as in the original attempt, that is, everything is

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Is there anything left to do for this? The new 64 bit MacOS 3.7.0b1 links with 8.6.7. Perhaps that should be updated to 8.6.8. -- ___ Python tracker

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

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[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Aivar Annamaa added the comment: install_name_tool can specify relative paths (see eg. https://wincent.com/wiki/@executable_path,_@load_path_and_@rpath). Therefore you don't need it in users' systems. I've used it successfully for bundling Python 3.5 and Tk 8.6 with my IDE, see

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: W.r.t. install_name_tool: macholib (PyPI project) contains functionality to do this work in pure python. I do not propose to include macholib in the stdlib, it is too special purpose and not everyone that has provided patches is a CPython contributor

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Ned Deily added the comment: "the install_name_tool lets you point a shared library at a different dependent shared library than the one it was originally compiled to link against" Yes, but I'm not sure how we can take advantage of that. First, keep in mind that there is only one version of

[issue15663] Investigate providing Tcl/Tk 8.6 with OS X installers

Mark Roseman added the comment: Thanks Ned. A couple of things. First, you probably know about this, but for future reference in case it might be useful, the install_name_tool lets you point a shared library at a different dependent shared library than the one it was originally compiled to