[Pythonmac-SIG] Tkinter support for Carbon - I give up.

[John W Baxter]

At 23:18 +0100 2/10/2002, Jack Jansen wrote:
>So, unless someone else wants to take over: there's not going to
>be Tk support in Carbon MacPython.

As a confirmed non-user of Tk on any platform, I have no problem with that.
   Mac:  I'm so used to Tk problems I haven't tried in ages
   Unix/Linux:  I *could* use Tk on the Linux "side" of my laptop, but I
couldn't transport the results to work (we don't use X-Windows except on
the machine consoles, which are 15 miles away from me).
   Windows:  I've never seen any reason to install Python on the Windows
"side" of my laptop.

>
>That, however, means I want to put an earlier issue back to the
>vote: should MacPython 2.3 be Carbon-only or both classic and
>Carbon? People overwhelmingly voted for Carbon-only in December,
>but that was when Tk support under carbon still looked possible.
>
>There is a third possibility: that MacPython 2.3 has limited
>support for classic PPC: a ClassicPythonInterpreter only, no
>support (or limited support) for a classic IDE and other
>goodies. This will mean that IDE development can go fully Carbon
>and not be hampered by classic, while people who want to run
>occasional Tkinter scripts can still do so.

I think your third possibility makes sense (on the assumption that you
wouldn't have offered it if it caused you much trouble to create).

[I also don't use the IDE...I edit in BBEdit whilst building Python scripts
on the Mac...in emacs whilst on Linux.]

Because I don't use two things I say I don't care about, I would think my
vote would be discounted...perhaps to a half vote.

   --John


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John Baxter   jwblist@olympus.net      Port Ludlow, WA, USA