On 9/20/06, Russell E. Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Ronald Oussoren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To increase the confusion: there's also an ActiveState distribution > > of Python. This is also a framework install. I have no idea why you > > would want to use this unless you need commercial support for your > > python installation. > > Here's one reason: ActiveState Python can actually see the ActiveState > Tcl/Tk if present. You can convince MacPython to do it, but it take some > black magic. > > The Tcl/Tk that is built into Tiger has some nasty bugs. Users are much > better off upgrading to 8.4.11 and ActiveState offers the only installer > package I know of that does that (MacPorts may do it, but during the > transition from DarwinPorts to MacPorts I couldn't find any way to find > out). > > If you think Mac users are crazy to use the built in python instead of > installing a more recent version, the situation is similar or worse for > the built in Tcl/Tk (and will be even more so once a universal Tcl/Tk > installer is available). > > I mentioned this a few days ago and somebody said "why don't you submit > a patch" for the MacPython build process. > > I've started looking into that. However, my strong suspicion is that the > way to build a MacPython installer that can use a user-installed Tcl/Tk > is to *have* a user-installed Tcl/Tk installed before building python > for the MacPython installer package.
That's one way, another is to use install_name_tool as part of the build procedure to change what _tkinter.so looks for, and a third is to include a subset of a recent Tcl/Tk in the build like the Win32 installer does. The third option is ideal as far as how we do everything else goes. Personally, I don't care much about this issue. I don't use Tcl/Tk Aqua, and it seems the only third party builds readily and obviously available are PPC-only, and I use a MacBook Pro. Creating a bug and/or patch makes it a lot more likely that something will happen (especially a patch). -bob _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig
