[Pythonmac-SIG] Universal installation of Tcl/Tk Aqua--for Tkinter developers

[Bob Ippolito]

On Apr 28, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:

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> Bob Ippolito wrote:
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>> On Apr 28, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
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>>> I've put together a universal installation package of the Tcl/Tk  
>>> Aqua
>>> frameworks, based on Tcl/Tk 8.4.13. This package should work with  
>>> the
>>> universal build of Python that's been released.
>>>
>>> You can download the package at
>>> http://tk-components.sourceforge.net/installer/.
>>>
>>> Be sure to look for the "Aqua" package--there is also a universal  
>>> build
>>> of Tcl/Tk for X11 at the site, which will probably be less useful.
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>> The universal build links against the /System Tk.. so barring a
>> replacement or install_name_tool hacking of _tkinter.so or some DYLD
>> environment variable tricks, installing this will not influence
>> universal python in any way.
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> Won't this linking cause the universal build to break when Apple  
> ships a
> new OS, presumably with updated Tcl/Tk libraries?

Potentially.  I didn't say it that this was necessarily the correct  
behavior, only that this is what it currently does.

-bob