Two more questions, and a comment: Cross-Platform...

[Cameron Laird]

In article <170620012336202508%sburr at nospammac.com>,
Steven Burr  <sburr at nospammac.com> wrote:
>In article <3B2BF029.14AAF29E at earthlink.net>, Ron Stephens
><rdsteph at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
>> 1. Is Tkinter likely to be ported over to MacOS X soon?
>
>In a sense, it already has been.  XFree86 has been ported to Darwin in
>a form that runs side-by-side with Aqua.  (You can switch to X Windows
>by clicking a button and back to Aqua by typing cmd-opt-A.)  Tcl/tk is
>also available for Darwin.  With XFree86, tcl/tk and the Darwin version
>of Python, I've been able to run Python/Tkinter apps in X Windows on my
>Mac.
>
>On the other hand, based on what I've read in the Mac-Python SIG and
>elsewhere, nobody seems to be working on a port of tcl/tk to Carbon or
>Cocoa.

The Mac-Python SIG gives false impressions.  Here's
what Apple employee and recognized Tk expert Jim
Ingham just told me:
  I am still working slowly on a Carbon
  port of Tk.  I should be able to have
  something stable enough that others
  can hack on it in a month or two.
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