On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 9:18 PM, lcrocker <leedanielcroc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Apr 21, 11:36 pm, Rui Maciel <rui.mac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> > It's only easy to install a package on Ubuntu if you know that you have >> > to, and can somehow work out the name of the package. >> >> No one actually has to install tkinter. That's the whole point of providing >> it as a separate package: only those who want to use it have to install it. >> The rest of us don't. > > I'm a programmer, I installed Tkinter, and use it. I'd like to deploy > programs > written with it to others. **Those** people know nothing about it, > and > **shouldn't have to**. I've given them a program in Python, they have > Python, > but it doesn't run, and doesn't give them a helpful error. They'll > probably > just blame me and move on. Not every Python user is a programmer. If > I write > a program in Java, any user with Java installed can run it. As it > stands, > that's no true for Python. That's not good PR for the cause.
If you're deploying only to Debian-based Linuxes (such as the Ubuntu you mentioned originally), then it may be worth distributing your program as a .deb file and declaring all the appropriate dependencies (which would then include python3-tk). Alternatively, just put an "apt-get install python3-tk" into your install script (which is what I do for internal deployments - if you need package XYZ for program Foo, inst-foo will install XYZ), or simply tell people they need to install it. How do you make sure they even have a Python 3.x? Whatever you do to ensure that, just add python3-tk to it. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
