Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] universal python; how to use my aqua tcl/tk?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Russell E. Owen wrote:

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Kevin Walzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Russell E. Owen wrote:

I just changed to the universal python 2.4.3 (I had been using

code.


version?

activestate's 2.4.3) as part of moving to releasing universal builds of Everything is fine except it's using Tiger's built in ancient version of Aqua Tcl/Tk instead instead of version 8.4.11 that I installed myself (in /Library/Frameworks). Is there some trick to getting it to use my

I had a similar question a few weeks ago:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pythonmac-sig/2006-July/017779.html

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the answer, but I confess to being disappointed.

ActiveState Python 2.4.3 uses the Tcl/Tk in /Library, if found, else

universal MacPython to do.

uses the built-in version in /System. Very handy and what I expected the

Feel free to create a patch that does this, it will get considered for 2.5.1 and/or 2.4.4. I seldomly use Tk on any platform, let alone on OSX where the L&F of plain Tk suck. Appearently the Tile extension fixes the L&F issues, but that is not API compatible with plain Tk and not wrapped anyway. BTW. Mentioning this now instead of earlier in the 2.5 release cycle makes it impossible to change this for 2.5.0.

Messing with _tkinter.so to hard-code a different path to Tcl/Tk seems
much less safe.

As Bob noted this is perfectly save.

the version in /System.

I tried the universal MacPython 2.5b1 and it also insists on only using

As does 2.5c1 and will 2.5c2 and 2.5.

I'd be very pleased if the release 2.5 followed ActiveState's lead on
this. If there's something I can do to help that happen, I'll do it.
Having readline and the ability to find a modern Tcl/Tk in the same
package would be very handy.

Ronald

One could argue that it would even be better to ship a minimal TclTk package with the python installer, possibly installing inside the Python framework. That would remove the dependency on an ancient version of Tk and makes IDLE work on 10.3 out of the box (IIRC 10.3 doesn't ship with Tk)

-- Russell

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