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

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 21 May, 2010, at 17:31, Michael Foord wrote:

> 
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> On 21 May 2010 16:21, ronaldoussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com> wrote:
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> On May 21, 2010, at 02:24 PM, Kevin Walzer <kw at codebykevincom> wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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.
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> What I'm thinking of is:
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> 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. 
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> 
> That sounds great!

Cool. When can I expect a patch ;-)

Ronald

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