On 21 May 2010 16:21, ronaldoussoren <ronaldousso...@mac.com> wrote: > > > On May 21, 2010, at 02:24 PM, Kevin Walzer <k...@codebykevincom> wrote: > > On 5/21/10 1:16 AM, Stephen M. Gava wrote: > > Hi there, > > I've installed the python.org package of python 2.7b2 for osx snow > leopard. > > > > It's Tkinter appears to be built against Tk 84, but I want to use > > Tkinter with my installed framework build of Tk 8.6 (for native Tk .png > > support among other things). > > > > So, I assume I need to build my own osx packages of 2.7 linking against > > Tk 8.6 to achieve this? > > > > Thanks, > > Stephen > > Yes, most likely. I believe the binary installers from Python.org still > link against 8.4 by default--anything else requires you to build your own. > > > The binary installers link to 8.4, and that won't change until all > supported versions of OSX ship with a newer version of Tk. > > I'm willing to ship a version of tkinter that links with 8.5, but only if > someone provides a patch that enables linking to both 8.4 and 8.5 (in two > different builds of _tkinter) and automaticly selects the right version to > use. > > What I'm thinking of is: > > have _tkinterpy 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. >
That sounds great! Michael > > Ronald > > > > > > --Kevin > -- > Kevin Walzer > Code by Kevin > http://www.codebykevin.com > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG<http://mailpython.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG> > > > _______________________________________________ > Pythonmac-SIG maillist - Pythonmac-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pythonmac-sig > unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/Pythonmac-SIG > > -- http://www.ironpythoninaction.com/
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