[Pythonmac-SIG] Incorrect entry about tkinter on apple website?

[Bob Ippolito]

On Nov 4, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:

> On 4 nov 2003, at 17:06, Bob Ippolito wrote:
>
>> On Nov 4, 2003, at 11:02 AM, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>>
>>> I noticed the following on 
>>> http://developer.apple.com/unix/toolkits.html:
>>>
>>>> TkInter
>>>> Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User 
>>>> Interface) package. It is a thin object-oriented layer on top of 
>>>> Tcl/Tk, and is the most commonly used toolkit for Python, as well 
>>>> as one of the most portable (though see also WxWindows, below). It 
>>>> does not require you to write Tcl, but you may need to refer to the 
>>>> Tcl/Tk documentation. While available for X11 on Mac OS X, noone 
>>>> has yet integrated the Aqua version of Tcl/Tk with Tkinter.
>>>
>>> Doesn't PackMan include a package for tkinter that integrates with 
>>> the Aqua Tcl/Tk?
>>
>> It sure does, but Panther doesn't come with Aqua Tcl/Tk or 
>> PackageManager ;)
>
> Sure, but the text basically claims that there is no Aqua Tkinter and 
> that is not true.

I think that page is pretty old..

Also, the Tk paragraph has an incomplete sentence:

Tk is a graphical user interface toolkit that makes it possible to 
create powerful GUIs incredibly quickly. It proved so popular that it 
now ships with all distributions of Tcl, and there are now variants for 
Perl and Python. The latest Tk distribution includes beta-quality 
support for Tk/Aqua, though production

... it just ends there?

-bob