[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset 383a3bec74f0bf0c1b1bef9e0048db389c618452 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'main': bpo-46996: IDLE: Drop workarounds for old Tk versions (GH-31962) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/383a3bec74f0bf0c1b1bef9e0048db389c618452 -- ___

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: Terry: tkinter on macOS already effectively does not support Tk 8.5, or basically anything bug the latest 8.6.x release. That's because older versions have too many bugs that affect Python users, which mostly show up on our tracker as bug reports about IDLE

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

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[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: tk release availability is a bit confusing. https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/Changes+in+Tcl%2FTk+8%2E6 appears to lists things 'new' in 3.6.1, but that seems to mean new since 8.5.1, as it includes thing introduced in 8.5.n, where n > 1. For instance, ttk spi

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

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[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

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[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: After PR 31839 has been merged you cannot build the _tkinter module with Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12. If you will still try to run IDLE on such incomplete build, an import error during importing tkinter will be translated to IDLE error: $ ./python -m idlelib

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Ronald: According to a page (which I cannot find, E. Paine should know) Centos 7 has the oldest tcl among current *nix distributions. https://centos.pkgs.org/7/centos-x86_64/tcl-8.5.13-8.el7.x86_64.rpm.html says it is 8.5.13, which is what I remember from th

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

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[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: New changeset c2e3c06139e9468efb32629d147d99a1672d9e19 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'main': bpo-46996: Remove support of Tcl/Tk < 8.5.12 (GH-31839) https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/c2e3c06139e9468efb32629d147d99a1672d9e19 --

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment: 8.5.12 will be 10 years old at the time of releasing 3.11. We can relax the requirements for 8.5.x, so the code can be build with older versions, but some tests will fail because we removed workarounds for differences in behavior in older versions from tes

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

Ronald Oussoren added the comment: One consideration is support for older LTS distributions of Linux, RHEL/Centos 7 appears to ship with Tcl/Tk 8.5. The system install of Tcl/Tk on macOS is also 8.5, but that variant has too many bugs to try to support it. -- nosy: +ronaldoussoren

[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

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[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

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[issue46996] Drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12

New submission from Serhiy Storchaka : In issue45979 E. Paine suggested to drop support of Tcl/Tk older than 8.5.12 (8.5.12 was released on 2012-07-27 and 8.6.0 on 2012-12-20). Tkinter tests contain workarounds and special cases for older versions of Tcl/Tk, many of them can be removed. Also