[Python-Dev] Upgrading tcl/tk deps (original) (raw)

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Tue Apr 10 01:41:58 CEST 2012

On 4/9/2012 5:49 PM, martin at v.loewis.de wrote:

Zitat von Brian Curtin <brian at python.org>:

Can someone let me in on the process to upgrade tcl and tk on svn.python.org? For the VS2010 port it looks like I need to upgrade since the 8.5.9 versions do not work. They use link options that choke on 2010. Taking 8.5.11, which is the current release, seems to work out alright so far.

It seems as easy as downloading the tarball and checking that in. Am I missing any official process here? Yes. There is a set of changes that you need to preserve. Tk never works with any recent VC compilers, so even if you use a new version, you still likely have to adjust the sources and the build process. Also, make sure Tix works. So there are two options: a) adjust the existing sources to work with the new compiler. To do so, modify tk-8.5.9.x (or whatever we currently use), then tag your modifications as tk-8.5.9. (would be .1 AFAICT), then update Tools/buildbot and PCbuild/readme.txt to refer to these. b) import new sources into tk-8.X.Y.x, then go through the changes in tk-8.5.9.x, and port over what is still needed. Again, tag your imported tree so that the Python tree refers to the tag, allowing for modifications to Tk should they be necessary. Switching to the most recent Tk release is a good idea, anyway, so b) is preferred.

In particular, it should include a recent fix so that French keyboards work with tk/tkinter and hence Idle better than now. There has been more than one complaint about this.

-- Terry Jan Reedy

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