Your message has encountered delivery problems. Your message reads: Received: from mail.my-world.ch (mail.my-world.ch [212.254.209.203]) by mail.my-world.ch (Rockliffe SMTPRA 4.5.4) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:20:15 +0200 Received: FROM sourceware.cygnus.com BY mail.my-world.ch ; Mon Apr 30 19:20:14 2001 +0200 Received: (qmail 23273 invoked by alias); 30 Apr 2001 17:06:49 -0000 Mailing-List: contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/> List-Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 23240 invoked from network); 30 Apr 2001 17:06:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sourceware.cygnus.com with SMTP; 30 Apr 2001 17:06:48 -0000 Received: from rtl.cygnus.com (loony.cygnus.com [205.180.230.181]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA16505; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 10:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from cgf@localhost) by rtl.cygnus.com (8.11.2/8.8.7) id f3UH7V630944; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:07:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 13:07:31 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Dennis Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Python 2.1 can't find _tkinter.dll. Is there a solution? Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dennis Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: <000c01c0d102$4c6fa9a0$a300a8c0@nhv> <000701c0d11a$707785d0$28481ad8@default> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.11i In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:06:39AM -0400 On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:06:39AM -0400, Jason Tishler wrote: >Dennis, > >On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 07:08:23PM -0700, Dennis Wilson wrote: >> I would be mildly curious about why the pre-built release is there. > >Umm...because I contributed it as a courtesy to the Cygwin community. >Note that you don't have to use it, if it does not meet your needs. >As an example, I use my own build of vim instead of the one in latest. > >The approach that I have taken is to submit patches to Python CVS and the >other projects to which I contribute instead of attempting to maintain >a set of patches to (re)apply whenever the package is released. > >If you would like Cygwin's (contrib) Python to support tkinter, please >submit the approach patches to the Python Patch Manager on SourceForge so >that tkinter is supported OOTB. Let me know when you patches are accepted >and I will try to apply them against 2.1. If successful, I will re-release >a modified 2.1 with tkinter support. Otherwise, I will release a build >of the current Python CVS. > >Note that Norman may have already submitted tkinter related patches to >SourceForge so you may want to collaborate with him to get the latest >status. > >The bottom line is that I am willing to maintain a set of patches >temporarily but not permanently. I feel that this a reasonable policy >-- hopefully, you agree too. It is a very reasonable policy. I appreciate your contribution of python to the cygwin distribution. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
