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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:11:40 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Latest TCL/TK breaks Python's tkinter
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 01:05:37PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
>Paul,
>
>On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:29:30PM -0500, Paul Stodghill wrote:
>> Upgrading to either tcltk-20030128-1 or tcltk-20030128-2 appears to
>> break Python's tkinter. Reinstalling Python didn't help. Reverting to
>> tcltk-20021218-1 fixed the problem.
>
>Cygwin Python will have to be built against the new Tcl/Tk package to
>solve this problem.  Sorry, no ETA.

It's strange that every new release of tcl/tk breaks all past programs
which rely on it.

Hopefully we've stabilized on tcl8.4.1 for a while.  Otherwise, perhaps
someone wants to volunteer to maintain the old tcl packages so we can
have a 'tcltk83' package as well as a generic 'tcltk', similar to what
Red Hat and other distributions do in situations like this.

cgf

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