[Pythonmac-SIG] errors of every kind w/ MacPython 2.0, 2.1xx, MacOS 8.1

[Russell E Owen]

>Here sits a poor user (the bug himself ;-?) and tries to bring his
>MacPython into a usable, stable (!) condition.
>
>I am running Mac OS 8.1 on my PMac (601 CPU) and have installed all the
>versions  of MacPython lying around, except 1.5c2. To say it: 2.0, 2.1b1,
>2.1b2.


I suspect that 2.0 is not compatible with Mac OS 8.1. Certainly you'd 
have to install AppearanceLib, which may be installed as part of 
Carbon (from the ReadMe). Your best bet would be to run 1.5c2 or to 
upgrade your Mac OS to 8.6 and install Carbon.

Note that 1.5c2 does not install Tkinter quite correctly -- a bit of 
tweaking of the paths is required to get Python to see it. Aside from 
that, it's very stable and works great. All you lose are the nice 
additions in 2.0.

Note also that Tkinter does not work very well in 2.1b2 (you 
typically have to "force exit" Tk applications to get them to quit 
and file events are broken in 2.0 and 2.1b2).

-- Russell