Python on riscos

[Paul Boddie]

Gareth.McCaughan at pobox.com (Gareth McCaughan) wrote in message news:<slrn9o2rak.2vt.Gareth.McCaughan at g.local>...
> 
> By the way, I have a hazy recollection that someone *did* port
> some, at least, of Tk to RISC OS. I don't know how easy it would
> be to make the Python port work nicely with it, and I don't
> now remember how complete the port was or who did it or anything
> useful like that.

I believe that Chris Stretch, in the earlier port of Python for RISC
OS, decided that Tk was too difficult to port, given certain
limitations of the RISC OS Desktop environment (no nested windows at
that time), so he invented a new toolkit (whose name eludes me, but it
started with T, I think) which was incompatible with Tk.

It might be interesting to review the Mac OS port of Tk to see whether
a RISC OS port is viable, given that Mac OS is possibly the closest
platform to RISC OS architecturally that Tk has been ported to. An
alternative solution would be to follow the anygui project
(http://anygui.sourceforge.net) and implement the proposed API using
calls to the underlying Desktop API.

Paul