[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter support for Carbon - I give up.

[Jack Jansen]

Folks,
I'm going to give up on supporting Tkinter under Carbon. Over 
the last week I've lost many hours trying to beat 
_tkinter.carbon.slb into shape, with no effect. I've tried 
various devious approaches, such as linking against both 
CarbonLib and InterfaceLib, using the PseudoCarbonLib from Tk 
8.3.2 (when I finally managed to find and download it:-) and a 
couple of other things, but I simply cannot get it to work: the 
mouse problem and the delayed even problem keep happening (or I 
simply can't get the thing to run at all).

So, unless someone else wants to take over: there's not going to 
be Tk support in Carbon MacPython.

That, however, means I want to put an earlier issue back to the 
vote: should MacPython 2.3 be Carbon-only or both classic and 
Carbon? People overwhelmingly voted for Carbon-only in December, 
but that was when Tk support under carbon still looked possible.

There is a third possibility: that MacPython 2.3 has limited 
support for classic PPC: a ClassicPythonInterpreter only, no 
support (or limited support) for a classic IDE and other 
goodies. This will mean that IDE development can go fully Carbon 
and not be hampered by classic, while people who want to run 
occasional Tkinter scripts can still do so.

So: let's have your votes, or if there are alternatives I 
missed: speak up!
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- Jack Jansen        <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com>        
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