In article <ad5bf985-3c9b-4d49-bfe6-0cff1b57a...@mac.com>,
Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote:
> On 27 Feb, 2009, at 1:57, Ned Deily wrote:
>
> > In article <rowen-8731e0.13531325022...@news.gmane.org>,
> > "Russell E. Owen" <ro...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> >> I want to follow up on this a bit. In the past if the Mac Python
> >> installer was built on a machine that did NOT have a locally
> >> installed
> >> Tcl/Tk then it would fail to work with a locally installed Tcl/Tk:
> >> Python would segfault when trying to use Tkinter.
> >>
> >> The solution was to build the Mac python installer on a machine
> >> with a
> >> locally installed Tcl/Tk. The resulting installer package would
> >> work on
> >> all systems -- with or without locally installed Tcl/Tk.
> >>
> >> So...has this problem been worked around, or is the Mac installer
> >> still
> >> built on a machine that has a locally installed Tcl/Tk?
> >
> > Ronald will have to answer that for sure since he built the installer
> > for 3.0.1.
> >
> > However, it seems to be true that the most recent python.org OS X
> > installers will always favor a /System/Library/Frameworks/{Tcl/Tk}:
>
> That's correct, I don't have a locally installed Tcl/Tk on my laptop
> at the moment and couldn't arrange for one in time for the 3.0.1
> release.
>
> BTW. The fact that this should result in crashes when a user does have
> a locally installed Tcl/Tk is new to me. The reason earlier builds of
> the OSX installer were build with a locally installed Tcl/Tk is that
> several Tkinter users indicated that the system version is
> significantly less useful than a local install.
Any hope of an updated Mac installer for 2.5.4 and/or 2.6 that is built
with a locally installed Tcl/Tk? If/when you do that, I strongly
recommend ActiveState Tcl/Tk 8.4.19 -- the last 8.4 release -- it has
few bugs and very good performance.
(For Python 2.6 you could install Tcl/Tk 8.5 instead, but it might not
work for folks using Apple's built-in Tcl/Tk 8.4. Maybe somebody else
knows; if not it would require some testing.)
Note that even Python 2.5 built against Tcl/Tk 8.5 and most of it
worked, but there were some known bugs.
-- Russell
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