[Pythonmac-SIG] Future 64-bit installers

2010-07-19 Thread Ronald Oussoren
Hi, We had a short discussion on the 2.7-macosx10.5 installer for python 2.7 at the europython language summit due to the unfortunate problems with IDLE and Tkinter in that installer: tkinter doesn't work in 64-bit due to being linked with Tk 8.4 and for some reason IDLE.app doesn't work either

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Future 64-bit installers

2010-07-19 Thread Ned Deily
In article <[email protected]>, Ronald Oussoren wrote: > We had a short discussion on the 2.7-macosx10.5 installer for python 2.7 at > the europython language summit due to the unfortunate problems with IDLE and > Tkinter in that installer: tkinter doesn't work in 64-

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Future 64-bit installers

2010-07-19 Thread Christopher Barker
Ronald Oussoren wrote: The consensus at the summit was to replace the macosx10.5 installer (ppc, x86, x86_64) by a macosx10.6 (x86, x86_64) installer for future releases. That enables linking with Tk 8.5 and that would solve a number of issues other than being available in 64-bit code. Users of