[Python-Dev] What to choose to replace Tkinter?

[Guido van Rossum]

> [Guido, on finding Tcl/Tk under Windows]
> > To me this all sounds like FUD.  Since Python 1.6 and 2.0, you don't
> > have to install Tcl/Tk or its libraries -- it is installed
> > *transparently* by the Python Windows installer.  That's different --
> > and better -- than what happened in 1.5.2, where a separate Tcl/Tk
> > installer was optionally run.  The version issues are also resolved
> > this way: you are guaranteed to get exactly the Tcl/Tk version that
> > was tested by the developers.

[Tim]
> Unless you're Fredrik, alas <wink>.  Apparently Tcl still honors library
> envars first if they exist, and if some other installation or use of Tcl/Tk
> set those, you can still end up w/ a mix. *Much* better than before, though,
> and I don't recall ay instance of this happening in real life so far apart
> from /F (who had no problem figuring it out, of course).

Hm...  In FixTk, TCL_LIBRARY is set explicitly.  Perhaps it should set
TK_LIBRARY explicitly too?

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)