Homebrew activetcl install#
Homebrew activetcl update#

Populate and maintain the new web page with the relevant information about OS X installer versions and Tcl/Tk versions.

Homebrew activetcl install#

Since it is possible the user will not be able to install ActiveTcl for some reason (licensing issues, perhaps), issuing the warning through the existing shell window will be much less obtrusive than opening an error window that would need to be dismissed every time IDLE is invoked.Ĥ. WARNING: The version of Tcl/Tk (8.5.7) in use may be unstable. If so, output a warning message via a print statement executed in the IDLE shell window: Add an OS X only check in IDLE initialization to see if tkinter is running with the known buggy Apple version. Add to the OS X Installer Welcome message and ReadMe files prominent references to the new web page.ģ. Define a canonical URL on the Python web site for a page that provides the latest status information on supported and recommended Tcl/Tk versions for all recent Python OS X installers. The attached patches take the following approach:ġ. So the solution here should allow for that.

Homebrew activetcl update#

the Apple could update Tk in 10.6 or new problems could be found. Because we are dependent on dynamic libraries, it is possible that the situation could change over the lifetime of the Python release, i.e. Since the Python OS X installer depends on an external source for Tk, either the default Apple-suppled one or, now, an optional 3rd-party install like those from ActiveState, it is important that users are aware that there are options and that they can avoid bad experiences with IDLE crashing, etc. Recently, ActiveState has released a newer version of Tk 8.5 that is ABI-compatible with the Apple 10.6 one but which behaves much better with IDLE and Tkinter, with none of the previously reproducible hangs detected so far.

Until recently, it was the only standard version of non-X11 Tcl/Tk that was supported for both 64-bit and 32-bit executables. The Tcl/Tk 8.5 version supplied by Apple in OS X 10.6 has proven to work badly with IDLE and other Tkinter applications issues reported include hangs when pasting text or opening new editor windows or after syntax errors. With 2.7 and now 3.2, we have been supplying two variants of OS X installers: the traditional 32-bit only version dynamically linked with Tk 8.4, the only version available across all supported OS X releases and a new 64-bit/32-bit version dynamically linked with Tk 8.5 for 10.6 only. OS X installer: warn users of buggy Tcl/Tk in OS X 10.6īenjamin.peterson, dabeaz, georg.brandl, kbk, michael.foord, ned.deily, ronaldoussoren, tloredoĬreated on 15:52 by ned.deily, last changed 14:57 by admin.