Jerry, On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 02:57:37PM -0400, Gerald S. Williams wrote: > Jason Tishler wrote: > > I guess that when Python 2.3 is released, I will most likely have to > > drop support for the _tkinter module. > > Please let's not.
I would prefer not to drop support either. But, to be frank, I do not use _tkinter. Hence, my motivation to support it is very low. If _tkinter is important to you (or anyone else), then please help. > The BDFL's comments were based on the assumption that Tcl/Tk 8.0 isn't > being used, which is clearly not true if Cygwin is stuck with it for a > while. Can't we ask them to keep the 8.0 special case for a while, at > least within #ifdef CYGWIN? I have done so already (sans the #ifdef). I encourage you (or anyone else) to post to python-dev@ to help support the Cygwin cause. > (I'm not entirely sure why Tcl/Tk is stuck at 8.0--I thought Cygwin > was supported through 8.2 or 8.3. But that's another matter.) As Chris has already stated, it is in the archives. > If Tcl/Tk 8.0 support is dropped from Python, I hope you don't do have > to do anything to drop support in Cygwin (i.e., it should > automatically build without it if Tcl/Tk 8.2+ isn't found). We will have to wait and see what Martin has done to rip out support for Tcl 8.0 and 8.1. My WAG is that the _tkinter module will just not be built. > That way, those of us that want to use it can simply rebuild Python > after updating Tcl/Tk. YAWAG is that setup.py will find Tcl/Tk and build _tkinter in this case. Jason BTW, what is "BDFL"? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
