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[Python-Dev] Tix version needed to build 2.7 Windows installer?

Zachary Ware zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com
Thu May 8 23:20:53 CEST 2014 
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 2:36 PM, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> Am 08.05.14 18:59, schrieb Brian Curtin:
>> This is mostly a question for Martin, but perhaps someone else would also know.
>>
>> I'm trying to build the 2.7 installers so I can backport the path
>> option from 3.3, but I can't seem to figure out which version of Tix
>> is necessary to have a complete build. So far any of them on
>> http://svn.python.org/projects/external don't appear to be configured
>> to work with the combination of tcl and tk that are used on 2.7, per
>> the buildbot external scripts. It's another issue that Tix isn't even
>> downloaded by the scripts, but I'll do it manually right now just to
>> get this going.
>>
>> Any tips?
>
> Ah, 2.7. I was using a checkout of tix-8.4.3.x from Nov 13, 2010, one
> where python.mak was pointing to Tcl 8.5.2. It may not have been tagged.
>
> In 2.7, it wasn't checked out out automatically because Tix requires the
> original Tcl/Tk path names, so building it automatically would have failed.

I updated the 2.7 buildbot scripts to pull in Tcl/Tk 8.5.15 a couple
of weeks ago (see http://bugs.python.org/issue21303), but hadn't
gotten anything done with Tix yet.  It should just need python.mak
updated to point to Tcl/Tk 8.5.15; it's on my list to get fixed as
soon as I can.

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Zach
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