[Pythonmac-SIG] [pythonmac-sig] python 2.7 tkinter using tk 8.6

[Michael Foord]

On 21 May 2010 16:21, ronaldoussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:

>
>
> On May 21, 2010, at 02:24 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevincom> wrote:
>
> On 5/21/10 1:16 AM, Stephen M. Gava wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > I've installed the python.org package of python 2.7b2 for osx snow
> leopard.
> >
> > It's Tkinter appears to be built against Tk 84, but I want to use
> > Tkinter with my installed framework build of Tk 8.6 (for native Tk .png
> > support among other things).
> >
> > So, I assume I need to build my own osx packages of 2.7 linking against
> > Tk 8.6 to achieve this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stephen
>
> Yes, most likely. I believe the binary installers from Python.org still
> link against 8.4 by default--anything else requires you to build your own.
>
>
> The binary installers link to 8.4, and that won't change until all
> supported versions of OSX ship with a newer version of Tk.
>
> I'm willing to ship a version of tkinter that links with 8.5, but only if
> someone provides a patch that enables linking to both 8.4 and 8.5 (in two
> different builds of _tkinter) and automaticly selects the right version to
> use.
>
> What I'm thinking of is:
>
> have _tkinterpy that does:
>
> try:
>    from _tkinter85 import *
> except ImportError:
>    from _tkinter84 import *
>
> Then patch setup.py to build _tkinter84.so and _tkinter85.so from
> _tkinter.c while linking to the right version of Tk. This should only be
> done when a special configure argument is present, if it isn't setup.py
> should default to building _tkinter.so like it currently does.
>


That sounds great!

Michael



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