On Mar 7, 2005, at 9:44, Kevin Walzer wrote:
Bob Ippolito wrote:
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| What you don't see is the stupid messages I get off-list because the
| PackMan UI sucks and confuses people. I'm tempted to just take it down
| entirely so I don't have to see these messages (I have removed
| references to the plist files from my site, but the plists themselves
| should still be there). If Jack intends to maintain the official
| repository, or not, that's fine with me -- but mine is dead.
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| It would be trivial to build a new installer for _tkinter.so. It's *one
| file*. It could be packaged up with the TclTkAquaBI pkg, so you can do
| the whole thing in one fell swoop.
I sympathize, and agree that PackMan is confusing. Some clarification from Jack about how the how repositiories about python.org will be maintained, or not maintained, would be helpful.
Personally I'd much rather see an official MacPython build of 2.4.1.. but I guess I could build it myself and redistribute it Jack doesn't get around to it in time.
Since I do a lot with Tcl/Tk, I would also be willing to look into putting together a package installer of the tkinter module and of IDLE. That would be useful to me for several reasons, not the least of which is that I actually find IDLE to be a useful editor. Since it's packaged as an applet, that would be consistent with the other stuff I maintain.
Doesn't an IDLE applet come with the add-ons?
IDLE is useful as an interactive interpreter because it's (in my experience) the only one that actually does it right by running the sub-interpreters out of process. I wish the other IDEs would learn.
What I don't know how to do is build _tkinter.so. Any advice on that front?
You need to rip apart Python's source a bit to build _tkinter.so. You can just cherry-pick the _tkinter.so you already have, though. There isn't anything terribly wrong with it, is there?
-bob
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