"GvR" == Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
...Or anybody installing ActivePython for that matter. We give instructions that the latest version of Tcl/Tk has to be installed separately, but Tk is *not* bundled with it.
GvR> And that's a shame. Any chance that will be fixed any time GvR> soon? I think a version of Tkinter packaged with a distutils setup script is the best answer for Unix platforms. As a Linux user, I do *not* want to install a second copy of Tcl/Tk. If we have a distutil-Tkinter, e.g. ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python/2.0/Tkinter-2.0-8.0.tar.gz then a user can download it and run "python setup.py install" to build a Tkinter against their installed version of Tk. This will be straightforward on many Linux systems, because they ship with Tk installed. Jeremy