I don't have root access to install the the tcl and tk package. I have created my own custom spkg for tcl and tk and been using that.
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@math.washington.edu> wrote: > On Apr 12, 2010, at 10:26 PM, Minh Nguyen wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 3:02 PM, Mag Gam <magaw...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Will sage ever have a native version of tcl and tk? It would solve >>> many matplotlib problems. >> >> For the short term, one could produce a tcl/tk package and integrate >> that into Sage. However, one also need to consider the long term. For >> example, if the package is to be a standard package, then someone or >> some people need to step up to maintain the package for at least a few >> years. An unfortunate aspect of open source projects is code that is >> no longer maintained. I can appreciate why you would request such a >> new addition to Sage. But you also need to understand that people need >> to volunteer to maintain code for years to come. It's very sad that >> once some chunk of code goes into Sage, months later you find that its >> developer is no longer willing or have no time to maintain the code. > > On that note, is there any reason why installing a system-wide tcl/tk > package and then installing Sage from source doesn't work for you? What do > you need from tk? > > - Robert > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject. > -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
