[Pythonmac-SIG] What is the future of Python on OSX?

[Tony Lownds]

>I'd like to see a Python cross-platform GUI solution that does not depend on
>installing fragments of X-windows on my Mac OS X system.
>
>Can Aquatk do that, yet?  Will it ever?

AquaTk + Python that is in CVS does a pretty good job. AquaTk on its 
own does provide a "cross-platform GUI toolkit that does not depend 
on installing fragments of X-windows on my Mac OS X system". It's 
just in Tcl/Tk not Python.
Python in CVS can link up with with AquaTk very easily and pretty 
effectively; setup.py makes a working Tkinter. The main issues are:

1. IDLE isn't built on its own
2. Threads crash it
3. AquaTk doesn't have a good release to point people to.

I can fix only #1. That patch is forthcoming.

-Tony