[Pythonmac-SIG] Why Do I Explicitly Need MacPython

Russell E. Owen rowen at cesmail.net
Tue Oct 3 19:18:43 CEST 2006


In article <944F3206-A1B1-4F56-8AF3-683BB7815EFB at mac.com>,
 Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

> On Oct 2, 2006, at 9:24 PM, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> 
> >>
> >> PyObjC, wxPython, Tk, all need to be installed correctly before  
> >> they can
> >> be used.
> 
> On 10.4 Tk is already installed and could be used, it has appearently  
> has issues but an egg frontend could be kept simple enough to work  
> around those.

I agree. The installed Tcl/Tk 8.4.7 is perfectly adequate for something 
like this. (Using PyObjC could probably make more Mac-standard 
interface, but if Bob feels uncomfortable including that in MacPython 
then Tcl/Tk does seem like the obvious choice.)

-- Russell



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