Ned Deily <n...@acm.org> added the comment: Here's a status update:
After testing 2.6.3-pre-rc1 with various combinations of Apple and ActiveState Tk 8.4 and 8.5 on 10.5 and 10.6, so far I have only seen the "new window hang" problem with Apple's Tk 10.5 (10.5.7) as supplied with 10.6 Snow Leopard. Although the Apple-supplied 2.6.1 IDLE runs in 64- bit, the same hang shows up with Apple Tk 8.5.7 in 32-bit mode as well (this with a 32-bit 2.6-svn IDLE built on 10.5 in the manner of the standard python.org installers except with AS 8.5 Tk installed during the build). Running this last installer on either 10.6 or 10.5 with AS 8.5.7 installed (32-bit only), I have been unable to reproduce the "new window hang". However, there are some other serious issues that I am still investigating. The good news is that, so far with one exception and with admittedly light testing, I have seen no regressions on either 10.6 or 10.5 using Tk 8.4 with 2.6 svn: Apple Tk 10.4.19 on 10.6, Apple Tk 10.4.7 on 10.5, AS Tk 10.4.19 on either 10.5 or 10.6. The exception is documented in Issue6951 with a supplied patch that should be go into 2.6.3. Even without the Tk problems, it is also unfortunate for IDLE users that the Snow Leopard Python is 2.6.1; a number of problems with IDLE on OSX were fixed in 2.6.2. So, with more work to be done, my recommendation at this point is to assume 2.6.3 can be released with an OS X installer dynamically linked as in the past with Tk 8.4 (so usable with either the system Tk 8.4 or a user-installed AS 8.4) and deployable on 10.3.9 through 10.6 on 32-bit Intel and PPC, where applicable. Pending further investigation and resolution, we should say that 2.6.3 does not support Tk 8.5 on OS X - period. ---------- nosy: +ned.deily _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6864> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com