On 21 May, 2010, at 18:22, ronaldoussoren wrote: > > > On May 21, 2010, at 02:24 PM, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevin.com> wrote: > >> On 5/21/10 1:16 AM, Stephen M. Gava wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > I've installed the python.org package of python 2.7b2 for osx snow leopard. >> > >> > It's Tkinter appears to be built against Tk 8.4, but I want to use >> > Tkinter with my installed framework build of Tk 8.6 (for native Tk .png >> > support among other things). >> > >> > So, I assume I need to build my own osx packages of 2.7 linking against >> > Tk 8.6 to achieve this? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > Stephen >> >> Yes, most likely. I believe the binary installers from Python.org still >> link against 8.4 by default--anything else requires you to build your own. > > The binary installers link to 8.4, and that won't change until all supported > versions of OSX ship with a newer version of Tk. > > I'm willing to ship a version of tkinter that links with 8.5, but only if > someone provides a patch that enables linking to both 8.4 and 8.5 (in two > different builds of _tkinter) and automaticly selects the right version to > use. > > What I'm thinking of is: > > have _tkinter.py that does: > > try: > from _tkinter85 import * > except ImportError: > from _tkinter84 import * > > Then patch setup.py to build _tkinter84.so and _tkinter85.so from _tkinter.c > while linking to the right version of Tk. This should only be done when a > special configure argument is present, if it isn't setup.py should default to > building _tkinter.so like it currently does.
I've filed issue 8798 <http://bugs.python.org/issue8798> for this. As mentioned in the issue I don't have time to work on this myself. Ronald
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