Gregor Hoffleit writes: > I have a quite urgent problem while polishing the new Python packages: > > Do we prefer our packages to use tk8.2 or on tk8.0 ? > > Python's Tkinter extension module (package python-tk) needs to be linked to > libtk. I wonder if I should stay with libtk8.0 or switch to libtk8.2 for the > final potato package, as wishlist bug #46705 suggests. > > A little bit more of half of the Tk packages in potato seem to use tk8.0, > while the other half already uses tk8.2. > > Only three packages would need to be rebuilt after an switch to libtk8.2, so > that's possible (python-imaging-tk, python-imaging-sane and sketch).
another problem area are the Tcl extensions, which only exist for one version of Tk. blt now builds with tk8.2 and let's no choice for python-pmw. OTOH on c.l.p many avoid tk8.2 because it's not stable as tk8.0.
