[issue8798] tkinter build variants on OSX
Ronald Oussoren
report at bugs.python.org
Mon May 24 11:06:47 CEST 2010
New submission from Ronald Oussoren <ronaldoussoren at mac.com>:
It would be nice if the binary installer supported both Tk 8.4 and Tk 8.5: the former is present on all current versions of OSX as part of the system, the latter is the only one that is supported in 64-bit code on OSX 10.6.
A number of Tkinter users have also mentioned that they would much prefer to target Tk 8.5 due to a large number of bugfixes in that version (on OSX).
What I'm thinking of is:
have _tkinter.py 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.
I don't have time to work on a patch myself.
Workaround for this request: build your own copy of _tkinter when you want to use Tk 8.5 (or later) and use sys.path manipulation to ensure that that copy is used.
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assignee: ronaldoussoren
components: Macintosh
messages: 106347
nosy: ronaldoussoren
priority: low
severity: normal
stage: needs patch
status: open
title: tkinter build variants on OSX
type: feature request
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2
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