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

[Trent Mick]

On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:23:30PM -0400, Tim Peters wrote:
> [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.
> 
> Unless you're Fredrik, alas <wink>.

...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.


Trent

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Trent Mick
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