ANN: ActivePython 2.7.1.3 is now available

[Sridhar Ratnakumar]

On 2010-12-13, at 4:21 PM, Terry Reedy wrote:

> On 12/13/2010 4:23 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote:
> 
>>> The PSF 3.1 Windows installer ships with tcl/tk 8.5 and ttk support.
> 
>> Maybe that was changed in 3.1.3.
> 
> No, 3.1 (not sure of 3.0) has always used 8.5 on windows and included
> tkinter.ttk module.

Ok, good to know.

>> I did this for ActivePython 2.7,
>> 
>>>>> import Tkinter
>>>>> root = Tkinter.Tk()
>>>>> root.tk.eval('info patchlevel')
>> '8.5.9'
> 
> 8.5.2 here. Are there noticeable improvements?

Nothing I can think of except module updates and bug fixes[1],
http://wiki.tcl.tk/405

I don't know how dependencies are managed when building PSF installers. From my experience, updating to newer tcl/tk patchlevel releases never broke the ActivePython build.

-srid

[1] David wanted to use >=8.5.8 due to a specific bug fix, http://community.activestate.com/forum/version-859-under-mac-os-x-am-i-getting-it