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

[Michael Foord]

On 21/05/2010 17:28, Ronald Oussoren wrote:
>
> On 21 May, 2010, at 17:31, Michael Foord wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 21 May 2010 16:21, ronaldoussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com 
>> <mailto: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 <http://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 <http://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!
>
> Cool. When can I expect a patch ;-)
>
Judging by the progress of my current good intentions for learning to 
contribute to the C parts of CPython it will only be a few years now... :-(

Michael

> Ronald
>


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