New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com>: It would be nice if the binary installer supported both Tk 8.4 and Tk 8.5: the former is present on all current versions of OSX as part of the system, the latter is the only one that is supported in 64-bit code on OSX 10.6.
A number of Tkinter users have also mentioned that they would much prefer to target Tk 8.5 due to a large number of bugfixes in that version (on OSX). What I'm thinking of is: have _tkinter.py that does: try: from _tkinter85 import * except ImportError: from _tkinter84 import * Then patch setup.py to build _tkinter84.so and _tkinter85.so from _tkinter.c while linking to the right version of Tk. This should only be done when a special configure argument is present, if it isn't setup.py should default to building _tkinter.so like it currently does. I don't have time to work on a patch myself. Workaround for this request: build your own copy of _tkinter when you want to use Tk 8.5 (or later) and use sys.path manipulation to ensure that that copy is used. ---------- assignee: ronaldoussoren components: Macintosh messages: 106347 nosy: ronaldoussoren priority: low severity: normal stage: needs patch status: open title: tkinter build variants on OSX type: feature request versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8798> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
