[Pythonmac-SIG] Trouble installing Tkinter with 2.3.5/10.2

[Christopher Barker]

Anthony Kozar wrote:
> I was really hoping not to have to rebuild all of Python (which I've never
> yet done)

When I was using 10.2, I used the Apple supplied python. The only issue 
I remember was that you had to hack a bit to get distutils to built 
things right, there was a spurious -x86 or something in the makefiles. 
some googling of the lists from that era should help you find it. I 
didn't use TkInter at the time, so I can't help there.

Also, it may be worth a plea here to see if anyone has an archive of 
some of that old stuff. I do have the "MacPython-2.3" folder from 
Applications from my old machine, but no Tkinter. I don't even remember 
where that stuff got installed back then -- inside usr/lib somewhere?

Ah -- I see. I've also got a Library/Python dir -- I think that's what 
site-packages was linked to. I've got Numeric, wxPython2.5.1.4, readline 
and waste in there. I'm not sure what Python it when with. No Tkinter 
though.

IIRC, Tk didn't work all that well back then, anyway, do you need to use 
Tk? (wxPython never worked on OS-9, though).

This is an awful lot of work to support a pretty old OS though....

-Chris


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