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Hi Achim, people, |
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I found out, by a method of trial and error, that python doesn't like tcl/tk |
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8.4a2 (or 8.4a3 for that matter). I observe that tcl/tk 8.4a2 is actually |
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default on gentoo: |
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root@void2 portage # emerge --pretend dev-lang/tcl-tk |
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order. |
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Calculating dependencies. done! |
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[ebuild R ] dev-lang/tcl-tk-8.4.2 to / |
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That's probably not a good policy for 2 reasons: |
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1. pydoc -g segfaults when Python 2.1.1 is built against this library (but |
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interestingly, idle is OK, and so is the color picker). |
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2. It is alpha quality code. It's not even beta, and it doesn't offer any |
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features that are desperately needed, imo, such that we would give up |
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stability in return for those features. |
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I propose to make tcl/tk 8.3.4 Release Candidate the default revision of |
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tcl/tk that we use. Doing so will be a first step to having Python 2.1.1 |
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ebuild file that works in a reliable way when built with _tkinter. |
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I think tcl/tk 8.4a2 ebuild needs to be masked. |
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--Leo |
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