Which Tcl with 1.6

[Robin Becker]

In article <87d2vq$s4l$1 at news.vanderbilt.edu>, Jonathan Gilligan
<jonathan.gilligan at vanderbilt.edu> writes
>Under WinNT 4.0 (SP5), with VC++ 6.0 (SP3) I have had good success building
>_tkinter with tcl 8.1 and 8.2, doing nothing more than applying Dieter
>Saurer's patches to _tkinter.c and tkappinit.c (they have been merged into
>the Python anonymous cvs repository, or you can search under tkinter and
>Dieter Saurer on deja news). Then you need to manually edit
>Lib/lib-tk/FixTk.py to replace references to tcl80.dll, tclpip80.dll and
>tk80.dll with your local equivalents.The CVS log claims that the patch to
>tkappinit does not work under Tcl 8.2, but I have had no problem so far
>running a number of the demos and running PIL with it.
>
>Has anyone tried tkinter with 8.2 on other platforms?
>
>Jonathan Gilligan
>

I certainly have used the patches (or slight variations thereof) with no
problems under win95/linux 2.2 Python-1.5.2

I thought about using stubs with Tcl8.2 to allow for future changes, but
as _tkinter embeds Tcl/Tk it seems that stubs are the wrong way round.
It could almost be done with a little dynamic loading technology.

>"Robin Becker" <robin at jessikat.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:eNIa+DAmfYm4EwL0 at jessikat.demon.co.uk...
>> Just started having a look again at the CVS and noticed that _tkinter is
>> still being built against Tcl8.0. Surely we should be moving to making
>> Tcl8.2 standard especially as it can do unicode which we are informed
>> will be in 1.6.
>> --
>> Robin Becker
>
>

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Robin Becker