[Pythonmac-SIG] My stab at a new page

Bob Ippolito bob at redivi.com
Sat Feb 11 02:50:59 CET 2006


On Feb 10, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Bill Janssen wrote:

>>> And how about bundling tcltkaqua into it, as well?
>>
>> Because some of us, at least, have no interest in tcl. I'm not clear
>> whether its presence interferes with wx (thing #421 that I'm not
>> clear about), but it doesn't help; why should I want it on my system?
>
> Because you can't run IDLE without it.  Maybe in a perfect world we'll
> have an installer that will allow you to do a custom install and
> uncheck the tcltkaqua entry before running the install.

I think it's safe to have a note that says something like this --

Attention Mac OS X 10.3 users: To use IDLE (the Python IDE) and other  
Tkinter based applications, you must first install tcltkaqua.

Better than adding 3 or 4 MB to the download.

-bob



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