I think its a fantastic idea. I built R against the Tiger version of
aqua-tcl/tk and used a tcl/tk package from inside R (called
RCommander). It works flawlessly! Its just fantastic. The output
graph from the package was displayed in another quartz window which
has to be opened from inside the R command line manually. Its a good
work by the R team. They carbonized the binary using a single line
command from a command line tool included with the Developer tools.
On 14 May 2005, at 05:46 pm, William Scott wrote:
Hi citizens:
I noticed that 10.4 now comes with an aquafied TclTk framework.
For awhile now I had been manually installing this, and then
manually installing a framework build of Python.
With 10.4, this just became much easier, as the only thing required
for me to build Python 2.4 was to configure enabling frameworks and
then to issue make frameworkinstall. To get python to use the non-
fink TclTk by default, I just put prepended /usr/bin to my path
temporarily. After it installed, I created the symbolic link
/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/Current/lib/
python2.4/site-packages -> /sw/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ to
replace the (empty) framework site-packages directory with mine
from fink, that contains other modules like numeric, scientific,
Pmw, and so on.
As a result, programs (such as pymol) that use Tkinter or Pmw
(which depends on Tkinter) launch FIVE TIMES faster than with the X-
windows version in fink (6 seconds vs. 30 seconds on my 2x2.5 GHz
G5), and using IDLE is now faster and it is aquafied.
I was wondering if it would be possible to have a version of Python
within fink that builds against the aqua TclTk in fink? I think
you can potentially put frameworks anywhere.
The only drawback I can see currently is that there are some
functions within Pmw that depend on blt, which is not yet available
in the aqua form.
Just an idea ...
Bill Scott
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