In article <rowen-edc16c.13470815042...@news.gmane.org>, "Russell E. Owen" <ro...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > I see the Mac binary installer isn't out yet (at least it is not listed > on the downloads page). Any chance that it will be compatible with 3rd > party Tcl/Tk? > > Most recent releases have not been; the only way I know to make a > compatible build is to build the installer on a machine that already has > a 3rd party Tcl/Tk installed; the resulting binary is then compatible > with both 3rd party versions of Tcl/Tk and also with Apple's ancient > built in version.
Thanks for the reminder. FWIW, that issue has recently been documented and there is a patch for the build script to ensure that the 3rd party Tcl/Tk is present during the installer build. I don't think it made it into the 2.6.2 source tree, though. <http://bugs.python.org/issue5651> -- Ned Deily, n...@acm.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
