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

[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 only
> binary package still in existence.

Yes.  I downloaded this yesterday and tried to run the installer -- it
refuses to install on anything less than 10.3.

I did search the Python site, the wiki, pythonmac.org, and this mailing
list's archives for 5-6 hours yesterday before breaking down and posting.  I
was fairly certain that the 10.2 packages were gone but I was hoping ...

> Building Python from source isn't that hard. Do you have the developer
> tools for Jaguar installed? If so, download the source code, follow the
> instructions, and you should be fine. If the binary I've pointed you to
> doesn't work, then building all of Python from source (including
> Tkinter) is your only option.

I was really hoping not to have to rebuild all of Python (which I've never
yet done) (1) but I have built fairly complex projects with many targets and
dependencies before, so I can probably handle it.  Oh well ...  (2)

Thanks again!

Anthony Kozar
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http://anthonykozar.net/


(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 versions of Python.

(2) (From what I've read it looks like the latest versions of Python and
Tcl/Tk can be compiled on 10.2 too -- makes me wonder why the packagers
don't use the 10.2 SDK when compiling ...)