Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-06-01 Thread Ned Deily
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Anthony Kozar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe there are not many 10.2 users left. But I still frequently hear from > people who are "just now" giving up their OS 9 machines for something newer. But that's not really an Apples to Apples comparison, so to speak.

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-06-01 Thread Kevin Walzer
Anthony Kozar wrote: Hello again, I want to thank everyone for their responses on this issue -- I appreciate the help! I did get Python 2.3.7 with Tkinter to build on my 10.2 machine and it was incredibly straightforward. (I forgot to install WASTE, so the IDE did not build, but that's OK for

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-06-01 Thread Anthony Kozar
Hello again, I want to thank everyone for their responses on this issue -- I appreciate the help! I did get Python 2.3.7 with Tkinter to build on my 10.2 machine and it was incredibly straightforward. (I forgot to install WASTE, so the IDE did not build, but that's OK for now). More comments be

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-21 Thread Ronald Oussoren
On 21 May, 2008, at 5:00, Anthony Kozar wrote: I would also just upgrade my 10.2 machine to a newer Python but all of the 2.4 and 2.5 binary distributions appear to require 10.3. Is this correct? That's correct, they require OSX 10.3.9 or later. There are two major reasons for that: f

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-21 Thread Christopher Barker
Anthony Kozar wrote: I was really hoping not to have to rebuild all of Python (which I've never yet done) When I was using 10.2, I used the Apple supplied python. The only issue I remember was that you had to hack a bit to get distutils to built things right, there was a spurious -x86 or some

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-21 Thread Kevin Walzer
Anthony Kozar wrote: (1) Another reason that I am hesitant to roll my own Python is that I also sometimes build Csound packages for distribution, an open-source project with its own Python extensions. We have enough trouble with providing binary distributions on OS X that match pre-compiled ver

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-21 Thread Anthony Kozar
Kevin Walzer wrote on 5/21/08 10:17 AM: > A bit more research shows this page: Thanks for the extra effort :) > http://pythonmac.org/packages/legacy.html > > There's a link there for _tkinter.so. It says it's built for Panther > (10.3). It may not work on your system, but that appears to be the

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-21 Thread Kevin Walzer
Anthony Kozar wrote: Thanks for the reply. However, my immediate need is to get Tkinter working on 10.2. Does anyone have the 2.3 Tkinter package for 10.2 or how can I compile it myself? Thanks. A bit more research shows this page: http://pythonmac.org/packages/legacy.html There's a link

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-21 Thread Anthony Kozar
Kevin Walzer wrote on 5/21/08 12:13 AM: > The Package Manager infrastructure is obsolete--no one has updated that > stuff for years. Sure, I understand that this PM isn't used in newer versions of MacPython, but shouldn't the packages remain available somewhere so that they can be downloaded? >

Re: [Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-20 Thread Kevin Walzer
Anthony Kozar wrote: Hello, I am a new member of the list and I joined because I am having trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5 on OS X 10.2.8. I have Jack's MacPython 2.3.5 installed and I downloaded and installed TclTk Aqua 8.4.6 today. But when I run the MacPython Package Manager, it displ

[Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

2008-05-20 Thread Anthony Kozar
Hello, I am a new member of the list and I joined because I am having trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5 on OS X 10.2.8. I have Jack's MacPython 2.3.5 installed and I downloaded and installed TclTk Aqua 8.4.6 today. But when I run the MacPython Package Manager, it displays an HTTP 404 error f