In article <201507111448.t6bemh6z025...@fido.openend.se>, Laura Creighton <l...@openend.se> wrote: > In a message of Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:56:09 +0200, Christian Gollwitzer writes: > >Am 11.07.15 um 13:27 schrieb Laura Creighton: > >> Also, if you need your app to work with MacOS, be warned that you > >> will need an older version of tk than the most recent one. > >> This information is current: https://www.python.org/download/mac/tcltk/ > >> Don't use 8.6 > >I'm not sure how recent this really is. Kevin Walzer has done a lot of > >work to get recent Tcl/Tk (i.e. 8.6) running on OSX. The most recent > >ActiveTcl release is 8.6.4.1. I'm using exclusively Tk 8.6 on the Mac > >without problems. > Unless I was misinformed 2 weeks or so ago when I asked, that is the > problem. Tcl/Tk 8.6 works (and is shipped with) OSX, but tkinter > and idle don't work with it. We will see what Ned Deily says > when he gets around to reading this.
Apple still does not ship 8.6 with OS X, only 8.5 (as of OS X 10.6) and, for backwards compatibility, 8.4. That's why the python.org Python installers for OS X do not yet use 8.6. ActiveState does provide an OS X installer for Tcl/Tk 8.6 but it is not open source; assuming your use is compatible with their (liberal) license, you can build your own Python linking with it. Also, some third-party package managers for OS X supply a Python linked with their own Tcl/Tk 8.6, e.g. MacPorts. We haven't wanted to get into the business of building and shipping our own Tcl/Tk for python.org OS X installers but, because of Apple's recent poor support for Tcl/Tk, we more or less need to; it's on the list of future enhancements. -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
