Ned- No need to apologize; I realize the Python developers are juggling many balls right now!
But I'll apologize---for always replying in a way that starts yet another thread. I reply to emails or web archive versions of the posts, and as far as I can tell, there is no way to respond in a manner that continues a thread. I've looked for info on this, and from what I can tell it's a capability that is being considered for *future* Mailman web interfaces. If anyone knows of a way to accomplish this right now, please let me know. Regarding my setup.py hack to allow building 32-bit on 10.6 with Tcl/Tk 8.4: > The last time I played with the 10.6 Tk 8.4, it worked just fine, so, > yeah, if you only need a 32-bit Tk on 10.6 that should be OK. Just to clarify: I think the situation is a little worse than some may infer from this. As I understand things, if you want to build Python 2.6 on 10.6 with a working Tkinter and IDLE, and without installing a new Tcl/Tk, your only option is build a 32-bit Python that links against Apple's Tcl/Tk 8.4, and this cannot be done with the existing installer. I just want other readers not to infer from your comment that if you're happy with Python's default 64-bit build, all is fine. If you are willing to install a new Tcl/Tk, you can have success but you have to be careful. Both ActiveTcl 8.4 and 8.5 (the current version) will produce a working IDLE. Both of these are only 32-bit in the free versions, so you will have to do some undocumented installation trickery (in my earlier post) to build a 32-bit Python-2.6 on 10.6 to mate with ActiveTcl, but at least you can avoid patching setup.py. I've also found that the current Tcl/Tk Aqua "de-carbon" 8.5 commit at GitHub seems to work fine with Py-2.6.5rc1, both 32-bit *and* 64-bit (I built universal frameworks, so with one install you can support either 32- or 64-bit Python). 64-bit Python's "make test" will crash when it reaches test_tcl, but if you run the test all alone, it passes, and IDLE works fine. I don't understand what regrtest.py does that affects the test when it's not run in isolation. BTW, with Tcl/Tk de-carbon, I have finally built a 64-bit Python with 64-bit numpy/scipy/matplotlib, with mpl's TkAgg front end working fine for the examples I've tried so far. I'm setting up a Homebrew fork to duplicate these installs; if anyone is interested in it, drop me a line; it would be great to have verification that it works elsewhere. -Tom ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ _______________________________________________ Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG
