On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 23:58 +0100, Jacob Carlborg wrote: > On 2014-02-14 20:15, Gary Willoughby wrote: > > > tcltk on Windows depends on ActiveTcl[2] being installed, but i'm going > > to compile my own DLLs to avoid this in future (Linux and Mac already > > have this installed). And x11 on MacOS depends on XQuartz[3] being > > installed which is unavoidable. (Linux uses this as default and on > > Windows the Win32 API is used instead.) > > I would say that anything using X11 on OS X is unacceptable.
Agreed. All Python folk doing cross-platform work use Qt AFAIK Tkinter is ancient and shows it, despite the make over a few years back. There are some adherents (because it comes standard with all Python distributions), but most people treat it as unusable legacy. There is an attempt to create a replacement for the turtle package (*) based on direct OpenGL rendering, but sadly the energy generated during the sprint at PyConUK 2014 has petered out a bit and progress is now slow. (*) which is really the last useful thing based on Tkinter. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:[email protected] 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: [email protected] London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
